Zivan reviewed Exordia by Seth Dickinson
Review of 'Exordia' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
First of all WAW… just WAW.
It's as if Exordia was written for men of my generation.
Men who grew up on Tom Clancy, on alien invasion stories like Foot Fall and grew on enjoying movies like Independence Day and novels like Ender's Game.
Yet now at 50 are more realistic about war and colonization.
Exordia is a techno thriller about first contact that isn't gang ho, or jingoistic.
It starts with a Kurdish refugee living with a terrible choice she had to make during Saddam's genocide of the Kurds in the 1980s.
It focuses on the damning decisions that are involved in trolley problem scenarios.
It explores the intersection between physics, mathematics and meta-physics. It dabbles in narrative causality.
I really want to give it 5 stars, for such an intricate plot and such compelling characters. But I must confess that some of it irked me. It is about …
First of all WAW… just WAW.
It's as if Exordia was written for men of my generation.
Men who grew up on Tom Clancy, on alien invasion stories like Foot Fall and grew on enjoying movies like Independence Day and novels like Ender's Game.
Yet now at 50 are more realistic about war and colonization.
Exordia is a techno thriller about first contact that isn't gang ho, or jingoistic.
It starts with a Kurdish refugee living with a terrible choice she had to make during Saddam's genocide of the Kurds in the 1980s.
It focuses on the damning decisions that are involved in trolley problem scenarios.
It explores the intersection between physics, mathematics and meta-physics. It dabbles in narrative causality.
I really want to give it 5 stars, for such an intricate plot and such compelling characters. But I must confess that some of it irked me. It is about 10 hours too long. The middle section is filled with mostly unnecessary detail that doesn't doo much to move the plot or solve the mystery or grow the relationships between the characters.
To many times we are retold information that is already known to us. We spend too much time watching characters walk into disasters who's aftermath we've already seen.
As for the audiobook, Sulin Hasso does a great job, choosing not to do accents, yet doing a very good job, to my ears, of reading out text in different nations native languages.
