Daniel Darabos reviewed Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee (The Machineries of Empire, #3)
Review of 'Revenant Gun' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I liked the first two books for plunging me into a very imaginative world of calendrical warfare and exotic effects. Impossibly, the third books still keeps revealing fantastic new information. This time it's about Moths, the spaceships of this world.
Also any questions we had about the nature and origin of Kujen and the Heptarchate / Hexarchate are nicely answered.
A way this book is even better than the first two is the symmetry of the plot. We have Jedao fighting Jedao.
I read it two months ago, so I don't remember a lot of detail, but let me share two passages I highlighted:
There’s an algorithm for fast factorization. The trick is, it relies on exotic effects—and those effects require a nonstandard calendar.
(Explanation for why the protagonist was chanting and meditating to hack a computerized lock.)
She remembered overseeing the servitors changing his diapers.
(Whereas today the big sister would remember changing the little brother's diapers herself, here she remembers the domestic robots doing it. Of course.)