The raven tower book review7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Doing things that affect the world drains those powers. ![]() It turns out that the powers of the gods are fed by worship, particularly sacrifice. They can inhabit a variety of forms and, once humans arrive on the planet, they learn to communicate with them. They have powers, which they don’t entirely understand, that allow then to change the world by speaking it so. One of them, at least, arrives from space on a meteorite. The latter takes place over a matter of days, many human generations after the war in the other strand has finished. The former takes place over thousands of years, though it eventually focuses in on a prolonged war between two rival groups of gods and their worshippers. The book has two parallel strands: one about gods, and one about men. If instead you are happy to read a well-written book that speculates about the relationship between gods and men, you will be perfectly content with what Ann Leckie has to offer in The Raven Tower. ![]() It is just that if you have certain expectations of a fantasy novel to do with it having a sense of the mysterious, the ethereal, the spiritual, then you will probably be disappointed. This is a fantasy novel written by a science fiction writer. OK, let’s get the awkward thing out of the way first. ![]()
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