The Kuiper Protocol

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Deep in the reaches of our Solar System, in an asteroid and planetoid zone known as the Kuiper Belt, Sedna, the farthest away object ever touched by humans, goes dark. Here in the Belt, the secrets to life are unraveling at the fingertips of scientist Allister McCullinay. Fueled by critical discoveries made from experimenting with tholins, inorganic material with the potential to become organic, these findings bring with them a trail of horrors the likes of which humankind has never seen. As the Administrator of the Belt slowly succumbs to madness, four main characters, including his own daughter, must find each other and battle impossible odds to discover the truth behind the origins of life, what that means for the fate of humanity, and if the mysterious Kuiper Protocol can save them all.

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Status: Completed
Year: 2023
Author: SimplyLynk

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Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
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★★★★★ 5.0
It's more thoughtful than 99% of fiction on RR so try it out.
It's had a lot of work put into it but it frustrated me. It constantly felt like it was on the verge of being completely enjoyable. It's like a really good indie movie that has weird color grading every two seconds, or the director picks a strange angle to shoot from. The analogy doesn't really work, there's just a lot of subjective stuff that nags at me. Like here's a line.
> “Ah, no, come on. Tell us,” the man next to him said. “You’re kind of infamous in the Corps.”
There's nothing that wrong with the line, it just feels weird to me. There's a lot of "ah", in the text, beyond this one, and in this one it's a little weird, but I don't really care about the ah. Normally I would expect Tell us," the man next to him said, "You're , because the comma at the beginning of the endquote suggests the thought is continuing, but it's not contiguous, so there's a period. That's correct, but it's weird to me. The man next to him said, "Ah, no come on, tell us." also feels weird, so I think i understand why it's there. Maybe just don't tag it at all?
This is not to illustrate a structural problem, it's to present an example of the many idiosyncratic choices made that end up activating my almonds and distracting me from the hard-ish, nearish future scifi thing a la Bova or someone that it's trying to achieve. But I think it succeeds in this. It's worth noting the amount of reading that has been clearly been done, particularly in regards to space science and American military-isms. If it isn't accurate it's enough to fool a layman like myself. I like all the characters on paper, and I think the spoilery thing is interesting. Tholins etc.. I like this sort of thing, I just feel like I should be liking it a lot more. And unfortunately I don't have any particularly useful and sweeping analysis as to why I don't.
I still like it though.