Thursday, January 27, 2022

The Inaccessibility of Heaven, by Aliette de Bodard

This novelette is kind of in the same universe as de Bodard's Dominion of the Fallen series, but it's not part of the sequence and is meant to stand alone. It has a lot in common with that series--fallen angels and all--but with different characters. Our protagonist is a mortal dedicated to helping those fallen angels, and is enmeshed in their politics but trying to be authentic in it.

This is a somewhat less breathless tale than those in Dominion of the Fallen, though not a lot. It comes from a somewhat different place than the main series, and I'd say I liked it better. We actually got a little taste of motivation--of how the angels fell. I'd like to know more about that in the main series.

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