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All Systems Red
Martha Wells
2017 · Science fiction
How it reads
All Systems Red is science fiction (space opera, specifically), and its dominant mood is funny. The humour is the point, not garnish. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in several locations, in the future, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are survival and identity. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. It's a short book. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something funny
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want to be sure it ends well
Maybe not if…
- you need something melancholy, dark or tense
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- science fiction
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- prolific veteran
- Setting: place
- multiple locations
- Setting: time
- future
- Mood / feeling
- funny
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- short
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- new release
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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