New out November 18, 2025
Slow Gods
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Our view
“Slow Gods” is a dark, thoughtful space novel about revenge, memory and what survives of a person after death. Its narrator dies at the controls of a ship and comes back changed, set on vengeance across many lives, while a supernova has already ended whole civilisations. Some readers value its ideas and philosophising even when they find the going heavy.
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About the book
In telling my story, there are certain things I should perhaps lie about. I should make myself a hero. Pretend I was not used by strangers and gods, did not leave people behind. Here is one truth: out there in deep space, in the pilot’s chair, I died. And then, I was reborn. I became something not quite human, something that could speak to the infinite dark. And I vowed to become the scourge of the world that wronged me. This is the story of the supernova event that burned planets and felled civilizations. This is also the story of the many lives I’ve lived since I died for the first time. Are you listening?
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 112 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 43% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 112 | 100% |
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