Interstellar MegaChef
by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
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Pub Date 5 Nov 2024 | Archive Date 29 Oct 2024
Rebellion | Solaris
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Description
Looking for your one shot to rise to the “top of the pots” in the cutthroat world of interstellar cuisine? Look no further—you might have what it takes to be an Interstellar MegaChef!
Stepping off a long-haul star freighter from Earth, Saras Kaveri has one bag of clothes, her little flying robot Kili… and an invitation to compete in the galaxy’s most watched, most prestigious cooking show. Interstellar MegaChef is the showcase of the planet Primus’s austere, carefully synthesised cuisine. Until now, no-one from Earth—where they’re so incredibly primitive they still cook with fire—has ever graced its flowmetal cookstations before, or smiled awkwardly for its buzzing drone-cams.
Corporate prodigy Serenity Ko, inventor of the smash-hit sim SoundSpace, has just got messily drunk at a floating bar, narrowly escaped an angry mob and been put on two weeks’ mandatory leave to rest and get her work-life balance back. Perfect time to start a new project! And she’s got just the idea: a sim for food. Now she just needs someone to teach her how to cook.
A chance meeting in the back of a flying cab has Saras and Serenity Ko working together on a new technology that could change the future of food—and both their lives—forever…
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781837862337 |
PRICE | CA$22.99 (CAD) |
PAGES | 400 |
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Featured Reviews
Holy cats! “Great British Bake Off in space with queer women” was a brilliant way to sell this book but it is SO MUCH MORE than that. Interstellar Megachef is EASILY one of the best books I have ever read in my life. Yes, there’s a simmering, layered love story between two morally grey queer characters. And it’s great! And yes, there’s a reality cooking competition! But man, this book is: the colonization of food, cultural hegemony, the ethical conundrums of technology and artificial intelligence, xenophobia, representation vs. the peddling of pipe dreams, food as love, food as sustenance, food as art, food as relationships, food as memory, culture wars, the ethics of power, idealism as imperialism, and identity inside all that. When I got to the last page, I blurted out, “My god, this is the ultimate anti-Gatsby” and I mean that as the highest possible compliment. It’s also just gloriously imagined and plotted sci-fi novel.
Thank you to Rebellion | Solaris and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book and provide and honest review.
I highly enjoyed this one. The world building here is so unique and rich, I became completely immersed in it. The book is about much more than just someone competing in a cooking show. In fact, that part takes up very little of the book. There's a lot going on here from xenophobia, to a secret underlying political agenda, new tech and the dilemma of how it may be used to change the world for better and worse, etc. I also really liked the cast of characters like Kili, and Starlight Fantastic, and I appreciate Serenity Ko's slow redemption arc in progress. Though the romance does need more build up in my opinion, I did still enjoy it and hope for more development there in the next book. Overall, this book was really interesting and entertaining to read, 4.8/5 stars.
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