Björn recenserade The stars are legion av Kameron Hurley
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The alternate title is Lesbians In Space, which says something about how just shamelessly fun this novel is, though honestly less about the plot.
Not that there aren't lesbians. Since it's set in a world where men simply don't exist, that's pretty much the default. But space? Well, that's where it's set, but then again so is every story every written. Anyway, somewhere in space, a number of dying worldships, half mechanical and half biological, spin around a star, making war on each other. Two women seem to have decided to break the cycle before everyone's dead. Or at least that's what one of them implies to the other, who's lost her memory. A space battle or two later, everything has gone to hell and the novel partly turns into Journey To The Center Of The Earth instead as we travel deep inside a spaceship so large that there …
The alternate title is Lesbians In Space, which says something about how just shamelessly fun this novel is, though honestly less about the plot.
Not that there aren't lesbians. Since it's set in a world where men simply don't exist, that's pretty much the default. But space? Well, that's where it's set, but then again so is every story every written. Anyway, somewhere in space, a number of dying worldships, half mechanical and half biological, spin around a star, making war on each other. Two women seem to have decided to break the cycle before everyone's dead. Or at least that's what one of them implies to the other, who's lost her memory. A space battle or two later, everything has gone to hell and the novel partly turns into Journey To The Center Of The Earth instead as we travel deep inside a spaceship so large that there are entire civilizations deep underground who've never heard of the outside, a literally rotting world built on eating itself, where (wo)mankind has had to adapt to birthing technology for lack of other ways to keep the world running for a few more laps. This novel goes to some dark places, and not just literally; cannibalism, mutants, body horror gone WAY beyond transhumanism, supposed heroes who casually murder thousands... It's messy, it's dark, and it's goddamn entertaining. Anyone can build a world, but building a world this rancid that still works is a feat. Hurley digs out all sorts of little twists and turns among all the gore, mulch and shit (including an actual wolf/cabbage/sheep dilemma), but never overwrites the plot to the point where it becomes more than just a central part of her beautifully fucked up space.
