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“I love The Cosmic Color…The premise is that Earth soldiers are integrating with these giant semi-organic, semi-mechanical suits to fight alien-like monsters of an unknown origin. We’re following one of the pilots as he’s graduating from the training of being in this giant mecha suit, and how this maps out across our protagonist’s own gender identity; the embodied experience of being inside this giant mecha suit, versus the embodied experience of being in his male body. The Cosmic Colour also gets at military propaganda, and how there’s a very specific way that it’s always framed – the sort of people that appear on military posters, and the ways in which they appear on them…I adore novellas from a pragmatic sense, because they are a quick read. It’s not an investment like a 150k-word book. But also, what makes a novella different is that you can have a very high-intensity, compressed experience of a single storyline.” Read more...
The Best Military Sci Fi Books
A.D. Sui, Novelist
