The stars are legion6/6/2023 Since one of them has recently lost her memory for the umpteenth time, she can’t help you understand how things work, because she either can’t remember or is having muscle memory make things work for her without any understanding. There’s just the story, told chapter by chapter from the point of view of two of the central characters. There’s no omniscient narrator describing the scene for you to imagine. There’s no tedious opening explaining the origin of the Legion, as the collection of planets are known. They shoot at each other with cephalopod guns… Guns that shoot out cephalopods. Hurley’s story is set on living planets, a group of living planets so close together that characters get from one to another by some kind of semi-sentient space bike. “The Stars are Legion” fits firmly into the second category of Sci Fi. The other type of Sci-Fi can be summed up by this picture from Onyxcarmine of Deviantart This is how it works.” The characters in the story don’t stop to explain exactly how their ship travels faster than light, I mean, with diagrams and equations and so on, but they do drop the crucial explanations that help the story make sense.* The first type takes you by the hand and says “Here’s a different world. But there’s another view – there are only TWO types of Sci-fi. There are many sub-genres of Sci-Fi military sci-fi, Cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic, dystopian and so on and so on.
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