Adrienne
I'm aware of Dracula and the other monsters referred here by pop culture osmosis, but I haven't read the Stoker or Lovecraft books.
I was still able to enjoy this book as a series of largely disastrous space adventures, told mostly from the point of view of the ship's AI.
Demeter is a fun character, as a ship dropped into multiple impossible situations which, according to her databases, should be fictional. Her vacillation as to whether any of this death is her problem and how can she get the corporation to take her seriously feels very relatable.
Steward, the medical AI, is on some ways even more relatable to me. They're cranky and self interested and convinced of their own cleverness. I really enjoyed the interaction between the two AIs.
The world building feels a little sketchy, in a good and bad way. In a good way, it feels like we barely scratch the service on the human culture of interstellar travel and Earth-colonial relationships. That all feels sufficient to me. How and why the monsters exist and why the limits on their powers feels a bit under explained. What did Dracula want to do with a tame werewolf and why was he traveling to alpha centauri?
Overall, I had a good time reading the book.
I'm aware of Dracula and the other monsters referred here by pop culture osmosis, but I haven't read the Stoker or Lovecraft books.
I was still able to enjoy this book as a series of largely disastrous space adventures, told mostly from the point of view of the ship's AI.
Demeter is a fun character, as a ship dropped into multiple impossible situations which, according to her databases, should be fictional. Her vacillation as to whether any of this death is her problem and how can she get the corporation to take her seriously feels very relatable.
Steward, the medical AI, is on some ways even more relatable to me. They're cranky and self interested and convinced of their own cleverness. I really enjoyed the interaction between the two AIs.
The world building feels a little sketchy, in a good and bad way. In a good way, it feels like we barely scratch the service on the human culture of interstellar travel and Earth-colonial relationships. That all feels sufficient to me. How and why the monsters exist and why the limits on their powers feels a bit under explained. What did Dracula want to do with a tame werewolf and why was he traveling to alpha centauri?
Overall, I had a good time reading the book.