I wasn’t exactly expecting the romance but wasn’t surprised by it either. I was also expecting the scrappy underdogs.
And love conquering all – even the dragons of academia.Įscape Rating A-: I was expecting the mech battle. What underpins this story about a hard-luck mech fighter and a young academic clawing up way up the ranks from the very bottom is a story about class and privilege, fought by two stubborn, scrappy underdogs against systems that are designed to keep both of them in their “place”.Īlong with a thrilling high stakes mech battle. And isn’t that just the way we think of academic politics? In a metaphorical sense, however, yes, very much that. Although it also kind of is – just not as directly as I was first thought. It would certainly help some of my friends in academia vent some well-earned spleen on the whole subject.īut that’s not exactly what I got. And possibly a whole lot of vicarious fun. The snark voice in my head was imagining the academics themselves fighting it out inside the mechs, because that would have been hilarious.Īlso true in a very perverse sort of way. I came into this one expecting “Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em” mech battles combined with a bit of “academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small”. Is it time to get back to the books, yet?
But when a con-artist tricks her into wagering a large sum of money belonging to her university on the outcome of a manned robot arena battle she becomes drawn into the seedy underworld of old Earth politics and state-sponsored battle-droid prizefights. Kas is a junior researcher on a fact-finding mission to old Earth. When did academia get to be so complicated? Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, ĭjango Wexler's Hard Reboot features giant mech arena battles and intergalactic diplomacy.
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