The artwork is stunning as usual, and the storyline continues to expand. this book is set in the one place the being Maika shares her existence with fears. The Prison world where its brethren have been held for millennia.
All the usual comments apply about this series. Now I have to wait a year for the next volume again. I'll probably do a quick reread of the whole thing before that though.
And a new series for me from the writer of the rather magnificently mind-bending Gideon Falls.
This is set in a distant future, a decade after planet sized robots called Harvesters wiped out swathes of the population of the galaxy before disappearing. Since then robots are not trusted and destroyed by many factions.
The old question of at which point does genuine AI become it's own individual being raises its philosophical head in this one.
A child companion robot named Tim-21 wakes on a mining colony, alone except for a mining robot and a robot dog. The family he was ensconced with are long dead from a gas leak that killed all the organic life on the station.
When Tim connects to the Base computers the rest of the galaxy is advised of his existence. This is bad news, since the roots of the Harvesters machine code is apparently contained in Tim's circuitry. Thus he becomes a highly sought prize for many organisations.
There are twists and turns I did not see coming, and Tim-21 is an intriguing protagonist so far. His robot companions are amusing and the human cast is a good mix of flawed and vulnerable.
The whole thing is gorgeously drawn by Dustin Nguyen. I will be searching out the other volumes ASAP as well as the sequel series Ascender.
Despite the vast differences in approach and look, there are some thematic links running through these books. Both feature incredible detailed world building and a central character with the key to immense danger built into their DNA/Circuitry (whether figuratively or literally in the narrative).
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