Leif’s Reviews > Chaos Terminal > Status Update

Weird things plague this book and oddly but surely break any immersion: there are passages that are totally implausible, to the point where I shook my head (some read as clips from Upworthy almost, given the scant pride of a better narrative context). The most damning is the tonal discordance between sci-fi premise - first contact! - and a bizarrely limited group of human characters. Why all from one university?