RaveThe Buffalo NewsThe novel challenges the reader in a variety of ways, mostly good ones, and showcases a distinctive voice, one that inspires interest in what it will say next ... China Mieville comes to mind as a comparable author, someone creating meticulous and wildly imaginative speculative worlds that are experiential rather than traditionally character driven, although he and Mason both create living breathing characters. It’s just that the people driving the action can feel as if they move according to an agenda rather than their own organic lives ... Mason’s conception here of AI is fascinating—its limiter is only itself and us. In the world of Void Star, we stare at each other across the uncanny valley between us, and that other eye never blinks.
