Language: G (1 swear); Mature Content: PG; Violence: R (repeated sci-fi fighting and killing)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS – OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW
Fassen is a genderqueer teen who is fighting with a rebel group, the Firebacks, against a cold, militaristic Ever-Blossoming Empire; and their friend, Lu, a pacifist scientist living in a peaceful commune outside the fighting from either group. Over the course of the novel, Fassen must come to terms about the costs of living in the rebel society and what is really worth fighting for.
Science fiction is a great genre that can sometimes more easily analyze current society than contemporary fiction can. This book does a great job of exploring the different ways society can operate and what different cultures place value in, even in space. I give a lot of kudos to the text for the many different kinds of ethnic and gender-identity representation in this graphic novel, but the sci-fi setting and complex world-building might be a hard sell to the casual reader.
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