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TERRANOMICON (terranomicon.com)
submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works to c/books@lemmy.world

Two soldiers declare a fight to the death, and give each other a year to plan. One starts a mercenary troupe, the other starts a domestic terrorism cell.

Meanwhile, a paralyzed billionaire invents robot bodies and becomes a cyborg. He tries to share this technology with disabled people everywhere, but instead his tech becomes a global arms race between those two soldiers.

https://terranomicon.com

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[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago

The premise is ridiculous, so I wonder: how serious does the book play out, or is it self-aware enough to lampshade things?

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

It's deadly serious, almost mythical, but half of the action of the novel is over-the-top action sequences like something out of the Heavy Metal movies or Terminator 2. It starts in mundane modern reality, but each chapter is a shocking escalation of action and stakes and technological transformation. The particular "over the top" style is almost like... post-ironic? Like, in a world where we can't take anything seriously anymore, where everything has to de-fang itself with self-critical irony, this acknowledges your skepticism and says, "This is happening." It's also a commentary on violence, through violence, by giving you the "action" (violence) that you want, but it turns out to be evil. Action movies embrace some ideology to transform violence into cool action, and this is a commentary on that. I don't want to spoil anything else.

[-] AnomalousBit@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago

What is the name of the art style in tiles one and three? It reminds me of the first graphic from the large hadron collider or space art from the seventies.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

I don't know what the style is. But the artist is @badmaddog on Instagram. Maybe they can say?

this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
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