While Gateway felt like a wasted opportunity of a mind-blowing setting confined to an unremarkable story, its sequel finally goes all out, dipping in stuff from xenofiction to fascinating intergalactic politics and mind-boggling scientific phenomena.
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Flowing, poignantly sarcastic prose |
A lot of threads are left hanging untied in the end
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Fascinating setting
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Interesting, solid story | |
Engrossing plot full of cool twist | |
Thought provoking about interspecies relations | |
Full of mind-boggling legit scientific phenomena, from black hole intricacies to machine boosted immortality |