Voice of One is, by far, the best offering to date in the Twilight Imperium series of gaming tie-in novels. First person narrator Sil is a member of a technologically linked multi-species collective nation, for whom she works as an agent. She becomes infected by a fungal based multi-species collective, which destroys her technological link, while being unable to incorporate her into its own collective. Sil is suddenly an individual.

This is a book about identity, choices, and self realization. Sil isn't like able but she is well drawn and grapples intelligently and realistically with fundamental issues about herself and the entity she has had a lifelong connection on every level. This is also a story about loyalty and its conclusions, in an age that celebrates the individual, may be surprising.

Good intrigue, fun adventure, deeper writing than usual. Well done.

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