 Hello well hello folks I'm Philip Magnus and this is rather a short video since I did my permafrost review which was for the record not the review permafrost uh novella by alistair reynolds the much beloved all truth sci-fi since it did so beautifully badly I thought why not hope that lightning strikes twice and I get another 17 views so naturally I had to do another review of a novella by alistair reynolds again very short video because I only had so much to say so let's get to the reviewing shall we another fast-paced novella courtesy of alistair reynolds slow bullets makes for one of those reads you can't put down after reading the first scene in the library where I picked this title up I sat down in the evening and didn't stop reading until there was no more slow bullets left to read whereas permafrost the first of the alistair reynolds novellas I read was driven by the force of its science-fictional idea the impetus for me here for my interest in this one was absolutely 100% the characters in particular main characters cur is a soldier fighting in a war she doesn't believe in it's a war she wasn't even supposed to be in and when an incident within a transport vessel sees her sent far away from home she's not too thrilled about it the cherry on top the war criminal who captured her in the final days of the war after a ceasefire in fact is also on board hint hint here's a war criminal at least in part over the kind of fucked up horrors he did to her he's not even her biggest worry however by the end of circumstance it is up to scur to make sure the nearly thousand people on the ship civilians as well as soldiers war criminals and what have you from the two sides of this massive bygone war don't kill each other so yeah she's got a lot to deal with and all of that before they have so much as figured out what has gone wrong with the ship where everyone's ended up and what terrible tragedy the lack of any man-made cosmic noise bodes for interstellar human civilization the greatest strength that reynolds shows in slow bullets itob is his doubt wielding of elements of uncertainty he injects lines of dialogue with subtle double meaning that some readers might very well miss only to recall them after a number of conjectures are presented in such a way as to make you doubt everything you've believed for a character or a set of characters what makes this novel so special and probably one of the reasons it won the locus of war in 2016 when you tear it down to its bare bones is that you have a human story whose resolution speaks to the best of who we can be something that inspires in something to aspire to i love my time with slow bullets and i i'm absolutely enthralled by alistair annals writing i'm currently making my way through revelation space which is the first in his most celebrated sci-fi series and there are definitely elements that i recognized from slow bullets in that book as well i will keep talking about him even if no one ever watches another one of my alistair annals sent to the reviews ever in the world if ever because they have fun they're amazing books and i think that if you enjoy something like mass effect revelation space for example is such a perfect book for you but hey i'll tell you about it some other time if you enjoy this video please share it with your friends like it and press that subscribe button i'll see you next time bye