
What I like most about Tim Powers is a clear sense of location in time and space, which this book has but either it does less with it or is too close to now for me to find it as fun as Fault Lines. Still has the ritual magic x technology elements he does so well and worth a read.
What I like most about Tim Powers is a clear sense of location in time and space, which this book has but either it does less with it or is too close to now for me to find it as fun as Fault Lines. Still has the ritual magic x technology elements he does so well and worth a read.

This is a good one! I usually avoid YA and I was ready to whine about the tsundere teen romance tropes getting in the way of my anticolonial dragon fantasy, but they do have relevance and fit in well by the end. Looking forward to the sequel.
This is a good one! I usually avoid YA and I was ready to whine about the tsundere teen romance tropes getting in the way of my anticolonial dragon fantasy, but they do have relevance and fit in well by the end. Looking forward to the sequel.

I was thinking "wow, this new book from the Blindsight guy is really of-the-moment" until I checked the publication date and realized it's his debut from 1999. Energy and refugee crises, corporate seabed exploitation, and AI have apparently been around for a while.
I was thinking "wow, this new book from the Blindsight guy is really of-the-moment" until I checked the publication date and realized it's his debut from 1999. Energy and refugee crises, corporate seabed exploitation, and AI have apparently been around for a while.