The Dominion of Leviathan
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Average rating3.5
Lord Ajax! First and greatest Ascendant; conqueror of the Martian machine-minds; mighty Steward of Leviathan’s Dominion! For a thousand years, Ajax has ruled the solar system’s worlds and moons with an iron fist. But history catches up with everyone—even an immortal tyrant. On the frozen dwarf planet Ceres, a scribe composes a record of his millennium-long rule. Unbeknownst to Ajax, her account contains a coded message that will spark a revolution.
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The Dominion of Leviathan by Manish Melwani
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This is a Tor short story, which makes it a kind of preview of a larger book. In this case, we have the story set in a distant future. Man has populated the solar system. Mars was settled, then controlled by sentient space ships. The dominion of sentient ships was overturned by the Leviathan - which seems to be a sentient Jupiter - and its emissary Ajax, the creator of the Ascendants. The Ascendants are superhuman and have reduced the human race into serf status.
This is the story of a human serf raised to Ascendant status. It describes what she went through to get that promotion and her plot of revenge against Ajax.
All in all, the imagined future is complex and may be interesting. On the other hand, it was all a lot to absorb so quickly and I don't think the story made its sales as particularly entertaining.
