Bernice Summerfield: The Empire State

[vivdunstan]

Another story set away from the Braxiatel Collection, while things continue to be in chaos there. A story that starts sort of in media res, and isn't entirely successful as a result. There are also arc things that are only revealed toward the end of the story, which is a common situation in this series at this point, and again doesn't work great.

On plus it's an interesting piece of scifi, with a small cast. Reminiscent in many ways of the very recent "Timeless Passages". And overall a strong first story from writer Eddie Robson in this range. Brimming with ideas.

Arguably the most interesting thing though is the final reveal of Braxiatel in hiding. And called back to the Collection by Benny, despite all he's done, because they need him. I forgot how much I'd missed hearing that character.

And looking forward to where we go next. Which I do have a pretty good idea of, but will enjoy the journey there.

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Spelling nitpick!

[a_cubed]

Nitpick: technically it's "in medias res" rather than "in media res". Sorry, can't help spotting and correcting things - essay marking head, particularly at this time of year. Also, since I do some work with a film studies scholar I actually do know a bunch of the terms like in medias res, diegetic/non-diegetic, etc. (Funnily enough, I just had to add diegetic/non-diegetic to my dictionary. Odd since I remember using diegetic in the feedback to a student piece on criticism of Cli-Fi last week - part of the assessment on the writing course for environment sciences at U-Tokyo. Maybe the firefox and emacs dictionaries are different.)

Re: Spelling nitpick!

[vivdunstan]

Thanks! Though I won't be surprised if I forget ;)