Ancestral night6/6/2023 Banks, you are not only served up a heady dose of space adventurism that sends you hurtling across galaxies and to planet exotic and banal, but are given food for thought as the characters disclose what it is that impels to take such life-changing risks and to often attempt to save the world (or should that be worlds? Yes, definitely the latter) when no one else will. Perhaps, it’s because in the very best of them, and Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear is definitely up there in the hallowed realms of Alistair Reynolds, Peter F Hamilton and Iain M. That’s true of almost all science fiction to be fair, but there is something about the larger than life look (they are usually door stopping in size) and feel of a titanically-sized space opera, that grips the imagination and the mind in ways that enthrall, beguile and get you thinking deeply in a way few others manage. One of the inestimable delights of plunging into a really well thought out space opera is how many incredibly fascinating observations they have to make about the human condition. (cover image courtesy Hachette Australia)
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