Troika

An interesting take on the big dumb object scenario.

Like with Slow Bullets in seems that there is an interesting story in the background that is just infodumped on us instead of being told.
This could have been a Novel.

I listened to Troika on Audible and while the narrator does great Russian accents, he recorded the protagonist with an America accent despite the fact that he is as Russian as everyone else in the Novella.
This was a bit strange.

A wonderfully multilayered novella, just as the Matryoshka artifact around which the plot revolved. A must for sci-fi fans who are also interested in history and world politics, combining both the current decline in funding for space exploration and a Russia under a Second Soviet that would be familiar to those who remember the Cold War

I normally prefer longer fiction, but this is a fantastic and captivating novella.