Jan 2, 2025
About to start Ardent Violet and the Infinite Eye, the second book of the Starmetal Symphony.
If you want queer space opera, giant space mechas (one who looks like a cat) and mental health, step right up
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About to start Ardent Violet and the Infinite Eye, the second book of the Starmetal Symphony.
If you want queer space opera, giant space mechas (one who looks like a cat) and mental health, step right up
So I’ve been kind of a hypocrite lately. I’ve always championed the idea of fighting back against the unending wave of cynicism, nihilism and culture war grifting in fandom spaces by chatting up about stuff you love.
But I haven't been doing that. Hell, my most popular recent posts have been me complaining about the term 'malewife' and a Max0r joke.
Well, that changes today!
So get ready, because I’ll be nerding out over whatever I’m currently enjoying to an insufferable degree from now on.
Everybody needs to read August Kitko and the mechas from space!!! I need this series to have a fandom. Imagine all the kitty robot fanart that we could have. Greymalkin with kitty ears!!!!
alright, this week's book series was the Starmetal Symphony with two books so far: August Kitko and the Mechas from Outer Space, and the recently released sequel: Ardent Violet and the Infinite Eye.
Review time: algorythm and customer service stylings get 5 stars but realistically I'd give it a 3.5 or 4. Plot is interesting, the characters feel very fully fleshed out and realistic. Some good representation of queer characters and different cultural concepts. Plot centers around some classic Big Fuckin' Bots and some Big Fuckin' Bot fights in space, on planets, and our hearts and minds as everyone panics about the (very relatable) ongoing, neverending, end of the world.
I'd reccomend it, they're fun reads. The writing style is interesting though, it requires a lot of inertia to get into. Once you're in its hard to stop, the fight scenes hit like a movie and when you put the book down its like coming out of a VR simulation -IF you can get that inertia going by reading enough in one sitting.
Check em out, or check some other books out instead. You probably realistically don't have anything better to be doing than reading a book
You made this post a few years ago now: https://www.tumblr.com/ghostlyglittergay/695756051854819328/everybody-needs-to-read-august-kitko-and-the
But it sold me a book this week so your legacy continues
Thats is iconic news! The second part just came out in december!
august kitko and the mechas from space, by alex white: three and three quarters mobile suits
i probably wouldn't have bought this novel unprompted, but my local bookstore clerk gave me a free scratch-and-dent copy, so i got to read something outside my usual sphere. i didn't know that mecha space opera was a novel genre -- i thought the visual domain of anime and film had a lock on mecha stories -- but white shows off what the graphics card of the imagination can do in this combat-heavy smackdown novel. what sets the novel apart is the queer characters -- written by a nonbinary author -- and the surprisingly soft and thoughtful way that the novel deals with trauma and intimacy. body horror/invasion is a thing.
i have a hard time ranking this book when it is mostly a fun romp through the magical land of violence, but simultaneously a subtle exploration of queer love and intimacy. it's in that space between pulp and top-shelf gems. so,
three and three quarters mobile suits
I got so caught up in the brainrot that I forgot to yell about it on here.
please for the love of falchion read august kitko and the mechas from space
August Kitko and the Mechas From Space book review | Space Opera Just Got Louder
August Kitko and the Mechas From Space book review | Space Opera Just Got Louder
August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White 464 pages published July 12th, 2022 When an army of giant robot AIs threatens to devastate Earth, a virtuoso pianist becomes humanity’s last hope in this bold, lightning-paced, technicolor space opera series from the author of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe. Jazz pianist Gus Kitko expected to spend his final moments on Earth playing…
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