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Oct 12, 2015
Premature Evaluation: Angels Fall First
Angels Fall First - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Marsh Davies)

One of the emerging themes of these alt-texts appears to be how useless humans are at anticipating anything outside of their immediate experience - whether that s preparing for a fringe weather event like a flash flood or appreciating the essential inhumanity of a non-biological super intelligence. It s particularly true in science fiction, where we frequently find implausible projections of earth-bound 20th century life. I think I ve quoted Solyaris s drunken scientist before, as he complains how inward-looking humanity is in its pursuit of the stars: We just want to extend the earth up to the cosmos's borders. We don't want any more worlds. Only a mirror to see our own in. There s nothing more emblematic of this than our inability to imagine space combat in anything other than direct analogies to 20th century naval and aerial warfare.

Each week Marsh Davies screeches out the airlock as part of a frontline assault upon the forces of Early Access and comes back with any stories he can find and/or makes no appreciable difference to the war effort whatsoever. This week he s fodder for the 64-man battles of Angels Fall First, a promising indie alternative to the likes of Battlefront, with space combat to boot.>

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