Calum Lott has created something really cool with Immortal Aberration leveraging an emerging trend of of blending sci-fi with fantasy elements in this SciFantasy book 1. Being a novella, it requires a certain style to be able to tell a full story in a short platform, and, we get a fully formed arc, fast paced action, enough lore and world-building sprinkled in so I understood what was going on, and a satisfying conclusion with a good book 2 hook at the end earning it a 4/5 ⭐️.

This instantly grabbed my attention with it’s first sentence and held it until the last page. It explodes with action around the 20% mark and doesn’t let up until the end of the book. I literally couldn’t put it down outside of being forced to by demands from the duo of small women that run the show in my house.

The exploration of space travel via an energy plane was so clever, and the fact that the characters describe the experience as basically being on a great shroom trip just added a certain ease to understanding how it worked. I enjoyed learning more about the world Lott built, the new tech like the Crystalas was what make me love the sci-fi genre, it also had very clear rules and it not being an infinite resource of power with clear weaknesses was a good example of Lott interweaving fantasy like magic into Immortal Aberration.

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