Whoever the adversary is, they have unleashed monstrous creations that are designed for one purpose: to kill humanity. In The Lord of the Sands of Time, humanity in the future has been decimated by a faceless enemy alien menace. I think that the Japanese have a penchant for open-ended stories and for scary villains that are either faceless or else inscrutable and abhorrent in their moralities.

The only thing I didn't like was the parallel time explanation - a bit wonky, but hey, still a good read. I especially like the ending of the story. Most of the time is spent on feudal Japan, where the AI messenger falls in love with the shaman princess Miyo that tries understand his world and the alien threat.Īlthough the novels spans millions of years (literally), it's a short read with a fast plot and interesting ideas. He's able of upstreaming, aka time traveling, and goes back to past centuries to earth where he almost singlehandedly fights the alien aggressors that can time travel too. The main character aka O - the Messenger comes from the future, where humans retreated on different planets throughout the galaxy. The concept sounded trite at first, but the implementation is awesome. He's able of upstreaming, aka time traveling, and goes back to past centuries to earth where he almost singlehandedly fights the alien aggressors that can ti Good sci-fi story about a human-like AI that travels to medieval Japan (and other time periods) to defend humans from a vicious alien species.

Good sci-fi story about a human-like AI that travels to medieval Japan (and other time periods) to defend humans from a vicious alien species.

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