2019/80: Revenant Gun -- Yoon Ha Lee
Tuesday, August 13th, 2019 01:59 pm2019/80: Revenant Gun -- Yoon Ha Lee
A young man named Jedao wakes up in a strange room, unable to recall how he got there. His friend Ruo isn't in evidence, and when somebody does show up, it's a beautiful man named Kujen, whose shadow is made of the shapes of fluttering moths. Jedao, apparently, is there to lead an army; he's not seventeen years old, but forty-four; and the reason he can't remember anything is that an enemy named Cheris made off with most of his memories.
Or so Kujen says. And in the absence of any other source of information ...
( no spoilers )
Jedao said in astonishment, “I can’t feel the acceleration.” The station’s bulk, with its bewilderment of lights and angles and protrusions, dwindled behind them.
“Physics is for the weak,” Kujen said. [loc. 2366]
A young man named Jedao wakes up in a strange room, unable to recall how he got there. His friend Ruo isn't in evidence, and when somebody does show up, it's a beautiful man named Kujen, whose shadow is made of the shapes of fluttering moths. Jedao, apparently, is there to lead an army; he's not seventeen years old, but forty-four; and the reason he can't remember anything is that an enemy named Cheris made off with most of his memories.
Or so Kujen says. And in the absence of any other source of information ...
( no spoilers )