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Sci-fi Militarism and Conspiracy – Knights of Sidonia Spoiler Review

In the future, Humanity has abandoned Earth, lost ages ago. Of the many colony ships that departed Earth, only one is now known to remain, menaced constantly by spaceborne biological terrors. We follow a young mecha pilot as he sets out to protect his home from the enemy’s tentacles.

Sounds simple, right? As a setup, it promises some cool space battles, at least. Perhaps it otherwise sounds a little scarce or cliched, but it could still hold up. Remarkably, Knights of Sidonia reaches well beyond the ‘comfort zone’ of being in a robot fighting aliens and seizes a good deal more of what makes Science Fiction great.

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