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Loading... Knights of Sidonia, Volume 1 (2009)by Tsutomu Nihei
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Freaking cool, but it could still be a better? I've only read the first volume so far but there were some really promising elements. I love the multiple genders and the ESP but then i immediately wanted to ask, which photosynth room do the nonbinaries go to? Also photosynthesis was a cool idea too. I didn't like how the inside of the ship is lined with residential districts separated by huge machine complexes like a Dyson's Sphere. That's been done to death. Also the design and scale of their ship defies belief. I can understand how big a Starship is or a Battlestar, but this thing is like Spaceballs 1. The fighter design was... bizarre? It's annoying how the enemy doesn't stay dead (but then isn't that a compelling plot device when it's the hero?) no reviews | add a review
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Outer space, the far future. A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity's home world continue to pose an existential threat. Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel's bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship's coolheaded female captain. No library descriptions found. |
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The monsters are visually unnerving, without the potential for the designs to become quite as unintentionally comic, as some of the Titan designs can be, due to the monsters being totally inhuman -
Also, in this volume, while the body count is lower than the body count from the start of Attack on Titan, the stake's feel just as high, and the writers don't have to casually massacre hundreds of civilians to get the stakes across. Only one character dies in this volume, and it's enough to sell the threat. ( )