As expected, this thing is a lot less confusing the second time around, and having it in print also helps when checking for the Dramatis Personae aka “who was that again?”. It still is a wild ride around very interesting world-building, and apparently I had hallucinated a whole plot point in Canaan House. Books-in-memory are always a gamble. I once again highly recommend this whole series.

(I also have no idea why Charlie says “in space” in his cover blurb, when maybe half a percent of everything is actually in space, but hey.)

Two Things I’ve re-Read:
05/25: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk&Robot I) and
06/25: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk&Robot II), both by Becky Chambers

It was… alright? I feel a bit like the concept has run its course and maybe it’s time to get off the horse while it’s still alive.
I don’t fully understand why “Can’t Stop” was in there, “Spider Rose” was a good watch, as was “The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur”, “How Zeke Got Religion” was good but really gory, and “For He Can Creep” has some very good cats.
Again, an alright season, but it lacked the pull of its predecessors.

Two Things I’ve Watched:
04/25: Nimona
05/25: Porco Rosso

The third and so far last Prefect Dreyfus Emergency brings me finally back to the point of having read everything Revelation Space. The book picks up a while after its predecessor, and… I have no idea how to keep this spoiler free, so I’ll just say that it brings the as-of-now trilogy to a satisfying conclusion, while leaving open possibilities to tell more stories in the Glitter Band of Yellowstone.

(I highly recommend to read Aurora Rising and Elysium Fire first, and I highly recommend every single piece of Revelation Space-fiction this man has ever written.)

On the one hand, there’s not a lot to say. It’s an Assassin’s Creed game. It’s set in Ancient Egypt in an attempt to tell the story of how things came to be, backfilling the series-defining artefacts away from being biblical into being ancient. It’s an alright story, it’s good gameplay, and I cannot clearly explain why but I found the ending, while not bad, very lacking.

The DLCs were pretty good, especially the Curse of the Pharaohs, but that one has… no proper ending at all? The quests just are over at some point? Or I’ve missed something bigger. I don’t know.
It plays well. I had fun. I don’t know if I would actively recommend it.

This thing holds up as perfectly on the second run as on the first, and oh boi did I forget how constantly hard-hitting this was.
Hopefully I’ll now manage to ge relatively quickly into S02, finally.