I've finished: The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
The Mercy of Gods starts with a group of scientists embroiled in some heavy lab politics. Then the aliens arrive.
Sadly, the rest of the novel continues to emphasize politics. Among the humans and with the different aliens, the questions are of relationships and power politics, not of science and research.
We have a group of researchers that never geek out about their ideas. When someone has a breakthrough it comes out of nowhere, there is no setup of gathering data, forming hypothesis, testing and coming to conclusions.
There is one character who actually tries to learn about the aliens, but he does so on his own and no one else is interested enough to have a conversation about his theories.
I expected something different from a novel about a biology research group that encounters an abundance of alien life forms and is given a lab and a research project to complete. Even if it is under horrific circumstances.
I understand the main dilemma of survival, resistance or compliance under fascist imperialism. But the lack of scientific discourse, geecking out or even curiosity among researchers is baffling to me.
Instead we spend an inordinate amount of time on who is fucking whom.
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