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skygiantsWould you believe I have never actually gotten around to watching a Lindsay Ellis video and thus I had no idea that Axiom's End was Transformers fic with the serial numbers filed off until I hit an author's note at the end?
Anyway: Axiom's End is a first contact book featuring several largely-inorganic aliens who arrive on Earth as a result of the complex and messy political situation that an ongoing war and attempted genocide has triggered on their home planet, and some of them might be exes, which I have very vaguely osmosed might be the Transformers story? Or at least the Transformers story as represented on the AO3?
It does take a little while to get around to this; the first part of the book introduces protagonist Cora Sabino, a depressed late-Bush-era Millenial from right at that point in history when all of us just thought we were individually underachieving and full of ennui and had not yet quite put together the fact that we were a bit generationally fucked. Cora has the additional disadvantage of the fact that her father is a famous whistleblower with an enormous cult following and a narcissistic personality, who bounced off to find asylum in Germany a few years ago and is, unfortunately for everyone, correct about the government cover-ups. In a potentially related fact, Cora's cool aunt used to work for the government in a classified position and is now just as underemployed and depressed as Cora, which has put a new and stressful twist on their relationship!
All of this background ends up placing Cora in exactly the right place at the right time to encounter, get kidnapped by, and end up forming a tentative alliance with a Questing Alien that develops over the course of the book into an intense and complicated platonic-romantic codependency, complicated by language barriers, intentional and unintentional omissions of information, and the fact that Cora can't quite be certain that her new alien comrade actually regards humans as people, per se. Also complicated of course by the government that wants to continue covering up, as well as the other, more murderous aliens.
You might enjoy this if you like:
- intense and complicated human-alien platonic-romaantic codependencies
- sci-fi linguistics
- messy family dynamics
- messy First Contact ethical conundrums
- action-movie vibes
- Transformers, probably?
You might not enjoy this if you dislike:
- lots of deaths occasionally including cute sympathetic entities
- remembering the Bush era
Anyway: Axiom's End is a first contact book featuring several largely-inorganic aliens who arrive on Earth as a result of the complex and messy political situation that an ongoing war and attempted genocide has triggered on their home planet, and some of them might be exes, which I have very vaguely osmosed might be the Transformers story? Or at least the Transformers story as represented on the AO3?
It does take a little while to get around to this; the first part of the book introduces protagonist Cora Sabino, a depressed late-Bush-era Millenial from right at that point in history when all of us just thought we were individually underachieving and full of ennui and had not yet quite put together the fact that we were a bit generationally fucked. Cora has the additional disadvantage of the fact that her father is a famous whistleblower with an enormous cult following and a narcissistic personality, who bounced off to find asylum in Germany a few years ago and is, unfortunately for everyone, correct about the government cover-ups. In a potentially related fact, Cora's cool aunt used to work for the government in a classified position and is now just as underemployed and depressed as Cora, which has put a new and stressful twist on their relationship!
All of this background ends up placing Cora in exactly the right place at the right time to encounter, get kidnapped by, and end up forming a tentative alliance with a Questing Alien that develops over the course of the book into an intense and complicated platonic-romantic codependency, complicated by language barriers, intentional and unintentional omissions of information, and the fact that Cora can't quite be certain that her new alien comrade actually regards humans as people, per se. Also complicated of course by the government that wants to continue covering up, as well as the other, more murderous aliens.
You might enjoy this if you like:
- intense and complicated human-alien platonic-romaantic codependencies
- sci-fi linguistics
- messy family dynamics
- messy First Contact ethical conundrums
- action-movie vibes
- Transformers, probably?
You might not enjoy this if you dislike:
- lots of deaths occasionally including cute sympathetic entities
- remembering the Bush era
