courage to reject an all powerful authority on moral grounds
This was the most interesting part of the whole story to me, and it’s an angle I haven’t quite seen in this type of story before. However, I think it was in competition with the personalities of Elohim and Shaitan. They felt too petty and talking-past-each-other to make sense as people from an enlightened race. Maybe if their “conflict” was also a pre-planned part of their strategy, instead of a squabble?
The cultural and literary references didn’t bother me, but they did mean that by the end of the first few paragraphs I was like, “Oh okay, we’re doing an Erich von Daniken/Assasin’s Creed/Prometheus,” and then everything played out about how I expected.
I wanted a few more surprises, I think. At first it felt like maybe the main characters were far-future humans, and maybe it would have been fun to let that possibility linger for longer. Or just focus in more on the central theme and how it could subvert and/or support the Ancient Aliens narrative.
But I did enjoy reading it! Got me visualizing some neat things.
This was the most interesting part of the whole story to me, and it’s an angle I haven’t quite seen in this type of story before. However, I think it was in competition with the personalities of Elohim and Shaitan. They felt too petty and talking-past-each-other to make sense as people from an enlightened race. Maybe if their “conflict” was also a pre-planned part of their strategy, instead of a squabble?
The cultural and literary references didn’t bother me, but they did mean that by the end of the first few paragraphs I was like, “Oh okay, we’re doing an Erich von Daniken/Assasin’s Creed/Prometheus,” and then everything played out about how I expected.
I wanted a few more surprises, I think. At first it felt like maybe the main characters were far-future humans, and maybe it would have been fun to let that possibility linger for longer. Or just focus in more on the central theme and how it could subvert and/or support the Ancient Aliens narrative.
But I did enjoy reading it! Got me visualizing some neat things.