Future's Edge by Gareth L. Powell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

My primary takeaway from this space opera is how much I appreciate the scope of the SF and the focus on characters. I get a very SF Paolini and Chambers vibe, but more importantly, the SCOPE is quite excellent.

What is strangest to me is how few people make the DIRECT comparison to Mass Effect and its universe. Indeed, it feels like a complete fan-fiction treatment of Mass Effect.

Or perhaps the game franchise is now so old, that its players are getting so old, that this whole storyline is now ancient and unknown to modern story-consumers? Kinda like how Saberhagen was forgotten by the time Mass Effect came into being?

*sad, depressed noises*

But at least we DO have this, a revival of sorts, of a story that should be celebrated.

I MISS SF like this. There's so little of it out there, now.


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