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MECH: Age of Steel is a collection of 24 mecha-inspired short stories in the spirit of Pacific Rim, Macross, Transformers, Robotech, Gundam, Evangelion, and more. MECH features a vast array of tales featuring giant, human-piloted, robot war machines wreaking havoc in blasted cities, or on dystopian landscapes, or around space stations and asteroids against a cosmic backdrop, or wherever, you-name-it MECH is anchored by authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, Ramez Naam, Jason Hough, Jeremy Robinson, and Jody Lynn Nye. This anthology features illustrations for every story and is the perfect companion to its sister title, "Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters." So strap in. Activate your interface array. Let's rock… (meer)
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I'm a huge fan of Martha Well's Raskura/The Three Worlds series but not so much a fan of the Mech trope, so I had opted not to back the Kickstarter fund for this particular publication. However, it's now more than a year since the project launched, the price has dropped on the digital edition, I had some Amazon digital credits in my pocket, and I figured I could spend a couple bucks to read a single short story.
"Birthright" seems to take place chronologically earlier than the previously published short story featuring this cast of characters ("The Almost Last Voyage of the Wind-ship Escarpment", Stories of the Raksura, Volume 2), based on the fact that a major character in the latter is not mentioned in the former, which I found a touch disappointing and mostly because I had burning curiosity as to what would happen after "Almost Last Voyage" and "Birthright" did nothing to satisfy it. "Birthright" does explore a bit into the other characters, but it's so dang short that it reads as here, there, done. The Kickstarter also funded an illustration to accompany this short story, but I didn't think the illustration fit the story well (or maybe ran so counter to my imagination that I could only rouse a meh for it).
Three stars. Probably a must for the completist of this author or series, but I think I would have been better off waiting and hoping that it reprinted with a publication that was a more suited match for my taste.
(I did not read the other stories in this anthology.)
MECH: Age of Steel is a collection of 24 mecha-inspired short stories in the spirit of Pacific Rim, Macross, Transformers, Robotech, Gundam, Evangelion, and more. MECH features a vast array of tales featuring giant, human-piloted, robot war machines wreaking havoc in blasted cities, or on dystopian landscapes, or around space stations and asteroids against a cosmic backdrop, or wherever, you-name-it MECH is anchored by authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, Ramez Naam, Jason Hough, Jeremy Robinson, and Jody Lynn Nye. This anthology features illustrations for every story and is the perfect companion to its sister title, "Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters." So strap in. Activate your interface array. Let's rock
"Birthright" seems to take place chronologically earlier than the previously published short story featuring this cast of characters ("The Almost Last Voyage of the Wind-ship Escarpment", Stories of the Raksura, Volume 2), based on the fact that a major character in the latter is not mentioned in the former, which I found a touch disappointing and mostly because I had burning curiosity as to what would happen after "Almost Last Voyage" and "Birthright" did nothing to satisfy it. "Birthright" does explore a bit into the other characters, but it's so dang short that it reads as here, there, done. The Kickstarter also funded an illustration to accompany this short story, but I didn't think the illustration fit the story well (or maybe ran so counter to my imagination that I could only rouse a meh for it).
Three stars. Probably a must for the completist of this author or series, but I think I would have been better off waiting and hoping that it reprinted with a publication that was a more suited match for my taste.
(I did not read the other stories in this anthology.)