Slow Gods

I'm always delighted when I read a book that makes me think, "gosh, that was a hard thing you tried to do, and boy did you do it." Books about more-or-less-immortal characters are difficult things; there's a real joy in reading a powerful narrator, a lot of fun in a power fantasy, but once your narra......more

I haven’t been this enthralled, confused and delighted by a sci-fi book since I read Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice. I can safely say this is my favorite book I've read this year in this genre. Slow Gods contains many of the elements I love in space opera. A rich world building, a queernormative univ......more

From one novel to the next, Claire North effortlessly leaps across genres, crafting unique, engaging, and consistently satisfying stories. Slow Gods is no exception—an imaginative and fresh space opera fronted by a self-deprecating pilot with infinite lives, staring down a universe-spanning cataclys......more

I am a sucker for a space opera with a funky premise, so I slammed the “request review copy” as soon as I saw the opening line “My name is Mawukana na-Vdnaze, and I am a very poor copy of myself.” I barely know where to start with Slow Gods, so let’s start here--this book is firing on all cylinders.......more

Thank you to Little, Brown Book Group – Orbit for the opportunity to read this ARC. A book that can only be described as Piranesi in space that opens up into a space opera with world ending stakes. It does take about 10% of the book before it really starts to open up, so it may be too slow burn for s......more