nine-tailed fox gambit (Ninefox Gambit)

New Year’s holidays are coming soon, everyone will go to rest and recuperate, and what could be more relaxing than reading an interesting Sci-Fi book? So today I decided to remember one of these books, namely Yoon Ha Li's book "The Nine-Tailed Fox Gambit," which I read a couple of years ago. At one time, I was impressed by both the interesting plot and the cool mechanics of the world, in which the Calendar plays a central role, which is some exaggerated and embodied representation of the Pythagoreans as to how numbers affect the world around them. The author built the novel in such a way that we see what is happening through the eyes of the main character, who until the very end of the debut can not collect a puzzle from the events taking place. And the main reason for this misunderstanding is that the events of the first volume are a gambit of the undead General, who has not lost a single battle and was removed from the board almost completely. 400 Years ago, after he fell into madness. At the beginning of the book he was temporarily returned as a trump card to help in the fight against heresy. The world itself seemed to me a dystopia, in which the state is built around 6 factions, which, in fact, are castes with a strict specialization.

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