Special limited edition science fiction hardcover novella by the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author. Only 1000 copies.Scions have no limits. Scions do not die. And Scions do not disappear.Sergeant Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad – the lethal battle suits that make the Scions masters of war – but something has gone catastrophically wrong.Now Regan and his men, ill equipped and demoralised, must go behind enemy lines, find the missing Scion, and uncover how his suit failed. Is there a new Ironclad-killer out there? And how are common soldiers lacking the protection afforded the rich supposed to survive the battlefield of tomorrow?
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0I'm not going to rate this because I made it 25 pages before bailing out.
It's set some time after the UK is destroyed by Brexit, gets bought out by the US and corporations take over everything. A group of incredibly hapless American soldiers have to investigate what happened to a Scion (important son of an owner of a corporation who gets to have a giant mech suit) when he disappears during a war with Scandinavia.
When I initially heard about this concept, I was intrigued. But Tchaikovsky's style annoyed me immensely. It's like his view of Americans was set by an evening of Fox News and then he never actually bothered to remember anything else. The set-up for this particular dystopian future was so heavy-handed that I really struggled to believe or care about any of it and Tchaikovsky wouldn't know subtlety if it bit him in the face. Even when it wasn't about politics. In describing one of the characters, he found two different ways to call him rat-like in a single paragraph, in case you couldn't figure it out from the first hint. I generally don't consider myself bothered by political books but this felt like a what-if story that didn't bother much with the details and I have too many other books to read to make myself continue. If you enjoy political satire a lot and don't mind missing details, it might be worth your time.
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