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derhindemith's review
3.0
I know this is poor form, but I'm going to start this review by saying that Neuland 2120 AD is categorically the worst book I've ever read. A Congress of Ships is everything that book wanted to be and nothing it was.
It's pulpy, obvious, and fun. The characters were given space to develop. None of them felt incomplete (even the villain, which could have been a villain from the Uplift Saga, had development that cast their motives in a less morally unambiguous light.) And the afterword tells me that there is a prequel that chronicles the newly introduced characters well before the events of this novel. I love a series.
For light reading, space action, and a lack of hero complex, this book is everything I want from pulp and nothing I don't.
It's pulpy, obvious, and fun. The characters were given space to develop. None of them felt incomplete (even the villain, which could have been a villain from the Uplift Saga, had development that cast their motives in a less morally unambiguous light.) And the afterword tells me that there is a prequel that chronicles the newly introduced characters well before the events of this novel. I love a series.
For light reading, space action, and a lack of hero complex, this book is everything I want from pulp and nothing I don't.
apostrophen's review
5.0
Stephen Graham King's Maverick Heart Cycle is the queer Firefly-meets-Killjoys series I always wanted, with the added bonus of his seemingly effortless world-building, clever plots, and themes of chosen family and "no one left behind" that bring me back every time. Trust me: go get squishy.
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