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Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) by Lindsay Ellis

March 26, 2021 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

Lindsay Ellis’ debut novel is a doozy. Set in the recent past in 2007 she situates this science fiction novel in Bush’s America, as a whistleblower drops the knowledge bomb that we have made first contact with an alien species. Have we? Is it a hoax? No one is quite sure. The government disavows knowledge, but rather than be situated as your standard action-oriented alien adventure, we meet Cora, the estranged teenaged daughter of said whistleblower who is in the middle of the action, whether […]

The very human connection between a young woman and an alien

Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

September 5, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

The year is 2007. Fergie’s latest single is playing on the radio and Bush is president. I wasn’t expecting so many cultural references in Axiom’s End, but the first chapter along sent me spiraling back to my 17 self in junior year of high school. Thankfully, the cultural references stop there, lest this book turn into a derivative of Ready Player One. Cora is just trying to make it in LA. She helps raise her two younger siblings with her mom. Their dad, Nils, complicates […]

Almost right, but not quite…

Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

August 31, 2020 by Caesar's Wife Leave a Comment

Axiom’s End is the debut novel of one of my favourite YouTube video essayists, Lindsay Ellis. Ellis is known for her retrospective analyses of classic Disney movies, her undying passion for Phantom of the Opera, and her obsession with dissecting the Transformers movies. She’s full of quips, insights, and feminist musings. I am a big fan of hers. But, as with Roxanne Gay’s ‘Bad Feminist’, my love of the author did not translate to love of the book. Axiom’s End, taking place in the year […]

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