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Triggernometry #3
Triggernometry Finals
"A little knowledge can be dangerous, but a lot of it can be deadly. We learned that the hard way."
Professor “Mad” Malago Browne – thief, killer, and one of the most wanted outlaws in the Western States – is trying to forget her bloody past and fight back against the tyranny of the Capitol, one maths lesson at a time.
The only problem? Gold talks and mathmos everywhere are listening, selling their skills – and each other – to the enemy for the price of freedom. There’s only one person with the power to stop them: Browne’s old mentor, Carl “the Cannon” Gauss.
But when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Browne and a rag tag faculty of numerates and renegades to do the impossible: unite the mathmos and bring the fight to the Capitol’s door, one last time.
Little do they know the eleventh hour might arrive sooner than they think…
Triggernometry Finals is the third and final instalment in the Triggernometry series, mixing the grit of the western with a cast of mathematicians from across history to create a unique and explosive adventure.
Professor “Mad” Malago Browne – thief, killer, and one of the most wanted outlaws in the Western States – is trying to forget her bloody past and fight back against the tyranny of the Capitol, one maths lesson at a time.
The only problem? Gold talks and mathmos everywhere are listening, selling their skills – and each other – to the enemy for the price of freedom. There’s only one person with the power to stop them: Browne’s old mentor, Carl “the Cannon” Gauss.
But when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Browne and a rag tag faculty of numerates and renegades to do the impossible: unite the mathmos and bring the fight to the Capitol’s door, one last time.
Little do they know the eleventh hour might arrive sooner than they think…
Triggernometry Finals is the third and final instalment in the Triggernometry series, mixing the grit of the western with a cast of mathematicians from across history to create a unique and explosive adventure.
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First published February 4, 2025
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Stark Holborn
28 books138 followersStark Holborn is a novelist, games writer, film reviewer, and the author of Nunslinger, Triggernometry and Ten Low.
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March 24, 2025Conclusion of this highly entertaining series about a Wild West where mathematics have been outlawed. Full of puns while pretending to take itself very seriously, and hits the balance just right. Good fun.
May 12, 2025
Thanks to the author for an ARC of this book.
I love this series. I don't know why a western with historical mathematicians works, but it does, and it's wonderful. So much fun and chock-full of terrible math puns. This one was aimed at me specifically, featuring my girl Émilie du Châtelet (my absolutely favourite thing is that her lover was absent...call it an inside joke). So many moments that made me scream in the best possible ways that I want to learn about the other mathematicians now - it's a little like Too Like the Lightning in that way. If you don't know the references, it's fine, they're unobtrusive enough. If you do? You'll holler like a baboon. It's the best.
Where was I? Oh right. The actual review part. It's a fitting conclusion to the series, if a little short (and it is indeed the shortest in the series as per calibre wordcounts, at 14k). I think it could have used a few more pages, but I don't know how much of that is 1) me wanting to spend more time with the world and the characters, I mean come on, I already love the others and now there's Émilie too, of course I can't be objective, 2) the fact that my kindle borked the file somehow and made me think I was 25% of the way through rather than halfway. But anyway, it wrapped up everything very nicely, and I highly recommend it.
Go. Go read them. Get yourself some bad math jokes and be delighted.
Enjoyment: 5/5
Execution: 4/5
More reviews on my blog, To Other Worlds.
I love this series. I don't know why a western with historical mathematicians works, but it does, and it's wonderful. So much fun and chock-full of terrible math puns. This one was aimed at me specifically, featuring my girl Émilie du Châtelet (my absolutely favourite thing is that her lover was absent...call it an inside joke). So many moments that made me scream in the best possible ways that I want to learn about the other mathematicians now - it's a little like Too Like the Lightning in that way. If you don't know the references, it's fine, they're unobtrusive enough. If you do? You'll holler like a baboon. It's the best.
Where was I? Oh right. The actual review part. It's a fitting conclusion to the series, if a little short (and it is indeed the shortest in the series as per calibre wordcounts, at 14k). I think it could have used a few more pages, but I don't know how much of that is 1) me wanting to spend more time with the world and the characters, I mean come on, I already love the others and now there's Émilie too, of course I can't be objective, 2) the fact that my kindle borked the file somehow and made me think I was 25% of the way through rather than halfway. But anyway, it wrapped up everything very nicely, and I highly recommend it.
Go. Go read them. Get yourself some bad math jokes and be delighted.
Enjoyment: 5/5
Execution: 4/5
More reviews on my blog, To Other Worlds.
February 7, 2025
I love this series. This is the final outing for Prof. Malago Brown and her friends, and personally I think it's the best book of the three.
If you've not read any of the Triggernometry books yet and you're a fan of alt-histories, westerns, or whip-crack smart maths puns then strongly recommend you give this series a chance. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
If you've not read any of the Triggernometry books yet and you're a fan of alt-histories, westerns, or whip-crack smart maths puns then strongly recommend you give this series a chance. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
February 3, 2025
Great to return (one final time?) to this surreal yet sharp western pointing out problems in our own recognition of experts and value of knowledge. A daring heist, outlaws and a treacherous opponent - what could go wrong? Full of action, great characters and knows when to be funny too I loved it
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January 14, 2025
Mad Malago Browne rides again wielding her weapons of Maths instruction with deadly aplomb as the late and the great genii of the only field not to have Nobel prize* go to battle with a furiously innumerate Capitol that is waging a war on science, facts and academia (Sounds kinda familiar doesn't it).
Full of Stark's trademark captivating imagery and lyrical prose this is another delight to digest, it's 60 or so pages easily consumed in an evening or so.
I got this as an ARC and will be putting a fuller review on the fantasy-hive in due course, but this is a gloriously fun ride through a shockingly familiar alternative history.
*Apparently Alfred Nobel's wife had an affair with a mathematician which is why the great dynamite inventing chemist decided his scheme of prizes recognising a broad spectrum of human achievement would eschew the entire field of mathematics!
Full of Stark's trademark captivating imagery and lyrical prose this is another delight to digest, it's 60 or so pages easily consumed in an evening or so.
I got this as an ARC and will be putting a fuller review on the fantasy-hive in due course, but this is a gloriously fun ride through a shockingly familiar alternative history.
*Apparently Alfred Nobel's wife had an affair with a mathematician which is why the great dynamite inventing chemist decided his scheme of prizes recognising a broad spectrum of human achievement would eschew the entire field of mathematics!
February 21, 2025
Can a ragtag group of a dozen mathematicians from divergent disciplines take down the corrupt Capitol government? Browne’s last chance lies with the circus.
This is the final chapter in the Triggernometry story. I’ll never look at the old west the same way again. Holborn’s nuns and numerates gave it all a fun new twist. I hope there is more.
This is the final chapter in the Triggernometry story. I’ll never look at the old west the same way again. Holborn’s nuns and numerates gave it all a fun new twist. I hope there is more.
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