Books 2012: The Kassa Gambit
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hawkwing_lbBooks 2012: 230
230. M.C. Planck, The Kassa Gambit. Tor, 2013. ARC courtesy of Tor.
Probably end up reviewing this for Ideo in the spring, if the reviews editor gives the okay, so the short version: promising debut novel, interesting characters, a just-different-enough-to-be-interesting SFnal space opera setup, potential aliens, political plots.
The slightly longer version: employs a little too much sexual threat directed at Prudence Falling, our female protag. Which is so common as to be beyond notice, it's the pool we're all swimming in, and yet some pools are toxic. So marks down there.
But overall, this is the kind of SF I like to read, and want to see more of.
230. M.C. Planck, The Kassa Gambit. Tor, 2013. ARC courtesy of Tor.
Probably end up reviewing this for Ideo in the spring, if the reviews editor gives the okay, so the short version: promising debut novel, interesting characters, a just-different-enough-to-be-interesting SFnal space opera setup, potential aliens, political plots.
The slightly longer version: employs a little too much sexual threat directed at Prudence Falling, our female protag. Which is so common as to be beyond notice, it's the pool we're all swimming in, and yet some pools are toxic. So marks down there.
But overall, this is the kind of SF I like to read, and want to see more of.
