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Written by Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines is a fantasy novel that builds a preposterous but intriguing world, telling a story with a lot of ups and downs, but that ultimately delivers with its good set of characters and a great amount of creativity.
In the world of Mortal Engines, cities exist on wheels. They are moving entities that are always looking for prey: here, one city can eat another with its metal contraptions just to take its resources and people. Aboard London, Tom Natsworthy is a young apprentice who, one day, finds himself in the position to save the man he considers a hero, Thaddeus Valentine, from the assault of a mysterious girl. The young man, however, learns [...]
Written by Hugh Howey, Shift is a pointless sequel to the great Wool, treading the same grounds while trying to explain things that didn’t need to be explained in the first place – and sounding just foolish in the process. With uninteresting characters and lacking momentum going forward, the book is a huge disappointment.
Initially, the plot follows two main characters: Troy and Donald. Troy is by far the most interesting one: he is a shifter, a worker in the silos that exist underground, tasked with taking care of them for a small period of time. When his shift is over, he must go back to cryo freeze and wait for his next shift. Donald, on the other hand, is a politician [...]
Daemon is a book that seeks to illustrate the mastery of technology over humanity. While many stories focus on technological dependence and create apocalyptic scenarios based on the horrible scenario where people suddenly no longer have it available – total absence of electrical energy is a recurring device – Daniel Suarez’s work demonstrates another purpose: to show how exposed and defenseless we can become with the advancement of technology.
Suarez paints our society as a fragile thing, depicting the indispensable elements for our daily life – internet, television, videogames, and the media – as tools of control and manipulation, in order to critique a civilization [...]