Perhaps the Stars

Now that I've finished the full series, this final review -- 5,500 words -- will also serve as my thoughts on the full series, starting with one of the fundamental issues underlying the series: theodicy.

I'll also discuss some other stuff that wasn't fully to my taste this time, and I'll end with a few short discussions: on free will, on J.E.D.D's. nature & the fallacy of fiction being a real world guide, on J.E.D.D.'s trolley problem motivation, on J.E.D.D. & Palmer's theodicy cop-out, on the trolley problem itself & on a few of the series' gender aspects.

In short, I think Palmer did an amazing job -- an insane amount of work -- crafting her narrative construction, providing tons of great ideas and sets and characters and twists and genuine moments of awe -- but, and this may seem paradoxical for a novel full of really insightful stuff, I think the main philosophical foundation of the four Terra Ignota books is uninteresting and unproductive. How's that for a cliffhanger?

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