I see a lot of people have put out the local team flag.
I guess today is ball day.
Old queer trans woman from Norway. Mainly post in English. I write stuff sometimes. Expect bad jokes. Girls and cats are nice.
I see a lot of people have put out the local team flag.
I guess today is ball day.
While a little dense, it was a surprisingly riveting read.
The way Stanislaw Lem envisioned a space-faring future was both charmingly retro, and still clearly futuristic. He wasn't interested in explaining why, or how things came to be that way, or how technology developed. He simply wanted his setting to be like this.
The conflict between two entirely different forces was tense, and serious. On the one hand, the intelligent humans with the most cutting-edge technology civilisation had produced.
On the other, a swarm completely alien in terms of nature, composition, and way of life.
Both completely dominant on their own planets, but currently only one of which was on their own turf.
I was disappointed that it was not a continuation of events from the game. I was hoping to see some returning characters, or at least traces of such characters, and/or their actions. An acknowledgement that those events had taken place, but aside from the general state of things, the threat faced, and the brief appearance of an object that was not explained to the protagonist, it seems like the actual narrative of the game was not what had played out before the protagonist's arrival.
Part of it could be imperfect knowledge. We never get to see much inside the thoughts, or points of view of any characters besides the protagonist. It is possible certain things were hidden from him. That object he saw might not even be what I think it is.
A handful of lines, and scenes that I saw in the game had basically been taken wholesale from the book, just played out with different actors. It was cool to see the description of the landing sequence at the start of the book match what I saw at the end of the game. I finally understood why it looked the way it did.
It is a shame I didn't get the continuation I had hoped for, but I guess the game studio felt they needed to change, and expand upon the events before the book to make it an interesting story. Based on what I read in the novel, that was probably the right call. They didn't have that much to work with otherwise.
Either way, they are both interesting sci-fi stories, and I recommend giving them a look.
Honestly the spookiest part of The Invincible was when I saw the rover driving on its own
Twice I found it in places I had not parked it, and one of them I actually saw it moving on its own.
The protagonist did not comment on it.
How did you accomplish this, friend rover? Do I need to call the space exorcist?
What I wouldn't give to have some reliable, consistent ways to calm down at night without using strong medication.
I know some tricks that work sometimes, but some nights it's just... hopeless.