[–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

I think the blurb sets up a bad set of expectations. "Lesbian necromancers in space" makes it seem like a Sci-Fi/Fantasy LGBT+ romance novel. Instead you get a mystery in a setting that is only technically science-fantasy with a vague romance side plot.

The ending isn't happy, that is for sure.

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    It's really hard to put my thoughts about this this novella into a coherent form. Especially without spoilers.

    Overall I liked it. It is thought provoking in ways I wasn't expecting.

    If anything holds me back from an absolute recommendation is the prose. That it is a translation shows. 73 words in a sentence just doesn't work the same way in English as it does in some languages.

    [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (5 children)

    Red Sister was quite interesting. IMO the rest of the series doesn't hold up.

    I highly recommend Gideon the Ninth down there at the bottom too. Very highly. Why haven't you started yet?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I'm entirely onboard and OK with your inclusion of GITS on the list and think that an examination of a theme inevitably needs to examine how a theme has evolved as it passes through other art forms.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You weren't out of the loop, SE was keeping it on the down low. Partly because there have already been two major production delays (COVID, invasion of Ukraine) and it hasn't been super clear when it would be ready for release. The producer is also doing double duty being the producer for 14 (if increasingly in name only) which probably isn't helping anything.

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