Lord-Triceratops

I wanted to finish this book and post the review before the New Year. I also wanted to post something just to show that I’m still alive. The last few months have been rough. Not just on me. I needed a new author, and this is the Mrs. Chan’s debut book. She could use some love and recognition in the Inter-web. She bases her novel heavily off Asian myth and society, even though she lives in Scotland (cool). It’s something different for the realms of fantasy, instead of another pseudo-European story. Her city of Tiankawa reminds me of Vietnam or the Philippines with its half-submerged infrastructure. Most of the streets are waterways and canals traveled by boat or swimming. The city’s name means “Heavenly River.” Public transit consists of cable cars and trolleys that hang precariously over the water. Land-lubbers need to get around somehow. Not only is the city half submerged, it’s also half human and half mystical sea-creatures. The titular Fathom-folk. The problem is that the

I need to confess something with this review. I am writing this a month after I read the book, so there’s a good chance that I’ll forget something. I imagine that after make this post, I’ll stop what I’m doing and shout, “Oh wait! I forgot to mention this!” Yet I feel obliged to do this, because I liked the book and I need to express why, and what it means to the Dune series. Also, someone commented on my last review that I only seem to review bad books, and while they do provide more comedic material, there should be more to life than dwelling in negativity. There’s enough of that in the world. This also means that this will be a shorter review than normal. My apologies. The most important thing to know about this book is that it started out as the last, unfinished Frank Herbert novel. The first Dune novel is the most famous, where Paul Atriedes and his family land on Arrakis, get slaughtered by the Harkonnen family, and Paul gets revenge. That is a

I feel that I should start this review with the obvious. No, this is not a book filled with pronunciation jokes about Uranus. Second, I wish it was because then it would be enjoyable, even on a sophomoric level. Instead, this is a story about a space station that doesn’t feel like it’s in space (I’ll explain), a drug cartel, and some crazy pseudo-science that wants to explain that aliens from another solar system really hated the aliens that lived in our solar system. Again, I’ll explain. And yes, I will use “Your Anus” jokes. I can’t help it. I need some levity, and this is the Internet, after all. The Haven space-station orbits the planet of Uranus. It’s founder, Reverend Kyle Umber, invites refugees and the down-trodden from Earth in the hope of a better life several million miles away from the sun. The station is financed by billionaire Evan Waxman, who produces a narcotic called Rust. One of the refugees is the main character, Raven Marchesi, who survived