Match BookMedusa Uploaded
Emily Devenport
2018 · 317 pages · Science fiction
How it reads
Medusa Uploaded is science fiction (space opera, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. 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 an invented world, in the future, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are power and politics, identity and survival. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 317 pages it's a quick read. It's a hidden gem — known to relatively few readers.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you like finding books before everyone else
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
- you want dense, lingering prose
- you hate waiting for a sequel
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- science fiction
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- future
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- hidden gem
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- power and politics, identity, survival
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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