Inter-review: Hwei Lim + Emma Rios And Their Book Mirror
by Sarah Horrocks Mirror is a book from Emma Rios and Hwei Lim about the tensions on a distant asteroid between the colonizing mage scientists and a growing colony of sentient animal-human hybrids. The aesthetic of the book is this airy watery pooling of form and color that combined with the multi-year time skips and the science-magic directions of its plot gives the book this space dream quality. Or as the book progresses, maybe more a space phantom quality. What starts out as a fairly contained meditation on the tensions between humans and animal hybrids on this asteroid colony...
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