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In a time where every sci-fi books feels the need to exceed 800 pages, this title was refreshing short. I know tie-in novels are atrocious by default but it's a shame to see good potential wasted.more Season in different FTL methods and weapons, that highlight the richness of both the game content and its worldbuilding and you will build the kind of excitement game fans expect. Set it half on Unity, with political intrigue, half in space with the perils of first contact and add in precursor weirdness and you have a novel. Stellaris is a great game and even with the three elements it takes from the game, the Commonwealth of Man (here framed as some sort of failing millenarist colony as opposed to the ruthless autocracy it is in-game), Lizard-aliens and mysterious precursors it could have achieved so much more. Worst of all for a tie-in novella it spends very little time building up the product it ties in with. Its prose lacks any depth, its characters are confusingly vague, its vocabulary is Straight out of the mind of a middle aged man trying to sound hip and relevant and it wastes a good deal of its short length on extraneous, dull exposition that barely has any ties to the paper thin space opera storyline. Stellaris Short and sloppy, Stellaris: Infinite Frontiers reads like an unedited first draft. Short and sloppy, Stellaris: Infinite Frontiers reads like an unedited first draft. But can he trust his crew? And what discoveries await if they reach their final destination? Infinite Frontiers is a novel based on the Stellaris computer game by Paradox Interactive, written by bestselling author Steven Savile.more Carson Devolo, captain of the colony ship Terella, has a simple mission objective: find the Source. The mission is set back years, and the grim truth is that any new crew Unity can muster will always be second best. The brightest and best-scientists, warriors, historians-are all lost in the fires. The first mission is a catastrophic failure, huge ark ships burning in the skies over Unity Prime. Some are willing to go to extreme lengths to make sure that doesn't happen. Some see it as salvation for their dying world, others insist that answering the call will expose them to advanced alien species and a future of slavery in their thrall. The Commonwealth of Man is divided by his discovery. He is the first to hear the signal, a distress call from the stars that answers the ultimate question once and for all: we are not alone. Some see it as salvation for their dying world, others insist that answering the call will expose them to advanced alien species an Hayden Quinn's entire life has been about listening. Hayden Quinn's entire life has been about listening.