To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis. It is revealed that the alien came to Earth to figure out how another member of his species died while being held in captivity by the government. The alien presence has been completely uncommunicative until she convinces one of them that she can act as their interpreter, becoming the first and only human vessel of communication.

Cora is an alternate name for Persephone of Greek Mythology, a story that Ellis has discussed before in her videos. An alternate history first contact adventure set in the early 2000's, pitched as Arrival meets The Three-Body Problem , by video essayist and New York Times bestselling author Lindsay Ellis.This is excellently handled, but it does feel that the story has switched directions from something a bit weirder (think China Mieville's Embassytown or Ted Chiang's The Story of Your Life, later filmed as Arrival) to something a little more traditional (maybe Starman with a slightly less attractive and indeed non-humanoid Jeff Bridges). These Hands Have Killed: Cora and Ampersand discuss the effect of having taken a life after Cora has accidentally caused the death of Vincent Park. He's slain by alien Obelus along with rest of the CIA caravan protecting Cora and the Genome, both of whom manage to escape in the nick of time.

Interspecies Friendship: Cora, a human, and Ampersand, an alien, develop a strong bond, the first of its kind between their species. Humans Advance Swiftly: Ampersand explicitly states that humanity is advancing much more rapidly than his own ancestors did. The climax and final acts simply let you on the edge of your chair, and the plot twists not only make sense but also make you feel everything.The Fremda Group has still not left Earth, and it is not clear if or when they will, or what they will do after they've gone. It's funny, I worried they might feel gratuitous, but instead they kind of took me back to the time itself and how things were back then. The force driving this controversy is Cora's whistleblower father, and even though she hasn t spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government - and redirected it to her.

An alternate history first contact adventure set in the early 2000's, pitched as Arrival meets The Three-Body Problem, by video essayist Lindsay Ellis. The force driving this controversy is Cora's whistleblower father, and even though she hasn't spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government and redirected it to her.

At times I was able to identify with her, I could look at some of the struggles she was having and see similar things from different times in my life.