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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Sage Osterberg and Ulysses Kitilson’s A Red Age imagines Irkalla, a dinosaur-ruled world where the Coalition and the Alliance have spent generations turning old grievances into a modern war. When Alliance commander Himalca threatens the Coalition with Nemesis, a weapon built to split the atom, the Coalition’s Triumvirate sends a commando team to steal proof before the launch deadline. Akragos leads the raid with soldiers whose private motives make the assignment dangerous even before the enemy sees them. In the Alliance court, Princess Zamma is pulled to the front by her older sister Hassa as King Mattan watches his family vanish into war. In the streets of Irkalla, Botilda follows a trail linked to anti-mammal violence as public order begins breaking apart. The novel follows a civilization racing toward a red dawn it may not survive.
Sage Osterberg and Ulysses Kitilson’s A Red Age is excellent speculative fiction, and the authors do a brilliant job of making dinosaur nations feel like real states at war. I love how the Coalition raid turns Akragos’s patriotism into something harsher once the mission moves through the arachnid-filled vents toward the missile silos. Kuyucak is great beside him because every complaint still points toward survival as the Nemesis deadline closes in. The Alliance court is just as strong, especially when Zamma watches Hassa and King Mattan weigh safety after an attack leaves bodies outside the palace. Botilda’s work at the Temple of Krata’s Daring adds another angle, since helping Alba and the Mammal Squashers escape shows the Coalition breaking apart from the inside on a civilian scale. Well written and darkly funny, readers who enjoy speculative fiction where war meets political satire will adore this.
