Interesting (and fun) read. The calendrical systems are basically magic, but who cares. Ninefox captured a wonderful weirdness and alien feeling to the technology and society while retaining the relatable human (?) characters. Some things could have been a bit better - the 3 chapters of consecutive Jedao flashbacks was a narrative gambit that might have been better spread out, and the siege of the fortress lacked some sense of urgency, but overall a great experience. Eagerly awaiting more from Yoon Ha Lee and the Ninefox. I think this is the book I wanted Ancillary Justice to be.

The book also reminded me a lot of some Morrowind apocrypha, which is always a good thing.

Some Mirror Logicians of the Altmer fight it still in chrysalis shells that phase in and out of Tamrielic Prime, and their brethren know nothing of their purpose unless they stare too long and break their own possipoints.

In 1E2757, he circumvented the bureaucracy of his own throne, including all county courtships and trans-provincial authorities, to make plans to colonize Tamriel’s twin moons. He commissioned the nachronachs of the Immaterial Harmonics Institute of Incongruitech and Extrinsic Travels to begin work on the first genegineered Megalomoth vessel-fortresses