The Rest of the Machineries of Empire Trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee

Revenant Gun and Maven Stratagemby Yoon Ha LeePublished By SolarisAuthor's Site A few years ago I reviewed Ninefox Gambit, a book I really enjoyed. It had everything I want in epic military scifi - spaceships, huge stations, massive battles, weird quasi-magical powers, and self-destructive fractional politics. You can read my full review here. Do the two followup books meet the same high standard? I finally got around to finding out. The Machineries of Empire cover sure have some cool art. Unlike a lot of scifi trilogies these days, the first book is pretty much stand alone. Not so with these two - the reader is dumped back into the world with nary a synopsis. Also, there is a 9 year time jump, so I was a little disoriented but I soon found my feet. The hexarchate is still as fractured as ever, mired in doctrine hundreds of years old. To big to be conquered but unable to contain the heretic General Shuos Jedao as they rampage across hexarchate territory. All the things I liked about…

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