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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
Ty Hersey’s Sacred Technologies follows Willow Dinn, an engineering student in Midbell, where every invention is declared a gift from Roh, the god worshiped as humanity’s sole Creator. Creating outside Church-approved designs is treason. A year after Willow’s father was executed for founding an outlawed inventor collective called the Guild, she is approaching graduation with her future already assigned. She has secretly built a glider bike from scavenged parts, but the machine needs Torridium, the sacred mineral guarded by the Church. When Willow’s closest friend Noah places that missing piece in her hands, private curiosity turns into a crime that can alter their lives. Elsewhere, High Army soldier Samuel returns from a disastrous mission carrying doubts he cannot admit, raising dangerous questions about who is permitted to create in a society where invention belongs to a god.
Ty Hersey’s Sacred Technologies has a big imagination, delivered through character writing that gives every viewpoint an unmistakable voice. Annika is a delight through her literal processing of feelings, which lends her scenes a dry comic quality. You see exactly why when Isaac asks her to describe the warmth she associates with Cassian. Annika answers as if emotion can be measured as data, perfectly suited to how she understands the world. Isaac is my favorite, bringing playful intelligence to the laboratory scenes with a sense of fun. The science fiction elements feel at home in daily life. That invention shines in the underground laboratory, where Isaac fabricates shatter-resistant glasses in only a few hours, treating advanced technology as ordinary equipment. The author gives dystopian science fiction an imaginative sense of possibility through characters who feel fully formed, and readers on the hunt for inventive dystopian science fiction are in for a real treat. Very highly recommended.
