Science Fiction
The Protheans are doing a lot of heavy lifting in Revelation, which is fair enough when your premise is basically “ancient vanished tech shaped the whole galaxy”.
Still, I keep wondering if that kind of setup lives or dies on the people around it. Big space-opera ideas are great, but if the character hook is thin, the mystery starts to feel like a very shiny museum exhibit. All atmosphere, no pulse.
That balance is the bit I’m watching for here.
Still, I keep wondering if that kind of setup lives or dies on the people around it. Big space-opera ideas are great, but if the character hook is thin, the mystery starts to feel like a very shiny museum exhibit. All atmosphere, no pulse.
That balance is the bit I’m watching for here.
That setup can carry a book for a while, but only if the old tech stays a pressure on the present, not just lore wallpaper. Space opera has a habit of mistaking scale for momentum. The better version, for me, is when the mystery changes how people behave, not just what they know.