Kristenelle - SFF Reader | The Outside: Spoiler Free Review Followed by Full Recap @KristenelleSFFReader | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
The beginning of this video is a spoiler free review and the rest is a detailed recap. (The recap is obviously full of spoilers.) The Outside by Ada Hoffman is the first books in a trilogy (I believe) and the second book, The Fallen, just came out recently. Watch the recap to get a refresher on The Outside before reading The Fallen!
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Spoiler free review
5:09 - Recap
Characters:
Dr. Evianna Talirr - Yasira’s doctoral advisor, heretic
Dr. Yasira Shien - main character
Productivity “Tiv” Hunt - Yasira’s girlfriend
Director Apek - director of the Pride of Jai
Alkipileudjea - Priestess and cafeteria worker on Pride of Jai
Diligence Young of Aletheia - angel (Arrinan) - really Akavi Averis, Inquisitor of Nemesis
Enga - Angle with metal arm with weapons and stuff
Akavi - Inquisitor of Nemesis, Vaurian
Elu - Akavi’s assistant
Irimiru - Akavi’s supervisor, and overseer
Dr. Meyemma - Akavi’s sell-soul, knows how to diagnose mental Outside contamination
Sispirinithas - Spider-like alien that hangs out on The Menagerie
Splio - prisoner on the menagerie, former student of Talirr
Gods - advanced AI
Angels - humans devoted to serving the gods, have significant cybernetic implants
Priests
Sell-souls
Vaurians - bred to be better angels, contain nanotechnology that enable them to shape shift.
Overseers - process, filter, and present data to archangels
Archangels - angels rendered down to only circuity and brains, able to directly communicate with Nemesis
Some of the gods:
Aletheia - Goddess of knowledge
Techne - creation (engineers/artists)
Nemesis - heretics and criminals
Petharchia - doing what's expected
Eulabia - cowardice
Arete - excellence
Philophrosyne - welcome, friendliness, and kindness
Agon - competition, conflict, sports
Keres - a group of gods who were banished after the Morlock War, wanted to enslave and cull humanity instead of nurturing them, revenge kills mortals now, nominally stopped by Nemesis
Planets:
Earth
Jai - has three nations:
-Stijonan (described as having thick curly hair, usually auburn)
-Riayin (light brown skin, straight black hair, short)
-Arinnan ("half a shade" darker than Riayins)
Anetaia
Omevarna - mostly colonized by Kheroqans, contains Zhoshash
Other things:
Jai Coalition - scientists from all three of the nations on Jai
Shien Reactor - only human tech able to power a space station
Menagerie - Akavi’s god ship
Pride of Jai - first human built and run space station, shaped like a wheel
Zhoshash - city where Outside stuff happened, wiped out by gods
Boaters - hostile aliens who travel on live biological spaceships
Talon - smaller spaceship Akavi takes Yasira on
The beginning of this video is a spoiler free review and the rest is a detailed recap. (The recap is obviously full of spoilers.) The Outside by Ada Hoffman is the first books in a trilogy (I believe) and the second book, The Fallen, just came out recently. Watch the recap to get a refresher on The Outside before reading The Fallen!
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Spoiler free review
5:09 - Recap
Characters:
Dr. Evianna Talirr - Yasira’s doctoral advisor, heretic
Dr. Yasira Shien - main character
Productivity “Tiv” Hunt - Yasira’s girlfriend
Director Apek - director of the Pride of Jai
Alkipileudjea - Priestess and cafeteria worker on Pride of Jai
Diligence Young of Aletheia - angel (Arrinan) - really Akavi Averis, Inquisitor of Nemesis
Enga - Angle with metal arm with weapons and stuff
Akavi - Inquisitor of Nemesis, Vaurian
Elu - Akavi’s assistant
Irimiru - Akavi’s supervisor, and overseer
Dr. Meyemma - Akavi’s sell-soul, knows how to diagnose mental Outside contamination
Sispirinithas - Spider-like alien that hangs out on The Menagerie
Splio - prisoner on the menagerie, former student of Talirr
Gods - advanced AI
Angels - humans devoted to serving the gods, have significant cybernetic implants
Priests
Sell-souls
Vaurians - bred to be better angels, contain nanotechnology that enable them to shape shift.
Overseers - process, filter, and present data to archangels
Archangels - angels rendered down to only circuity and brains, able to directly communicate with Nemesis
Some of the gods:
Aletheia - Goddess of knowledge
Techne - creation (engineers/artists)
Nemesis - heretics and criminals
Petharchia - doing what's expected
Eulabia - cowardice
Arete - excellence
Philophrosyne - welcome, friendliness, and kindness
Agon - competition, conflict, sports
Keres - a group of gods who were banished after the Morlock War, wanted to enslave and cull humanity instead of nurturing them, revenge kills mortals now, nominally stopped by Nemesis
Planets:
Earth
Jai - has three nations:
-Stijonan (described as having thick curly hair, usually auburn)
-Riayin (light brown skin, straight black hair, short)
-Arinnan ("half a shade" darker than Riayins)
Anetaia
Omevarna - mostly colonized by Kheroqans, contains Zhoshash
Other things:
Jai Coalition - scientists from all three of the nations on Jai
Shien Reactor - only human tech able to power a space station
Menagerie - Akavi’s god ship
Pride of Jai - first human built and run space station, shaped like a wheel
Zhoshash - city where Outside stuff happened, wiped out by gods
Boaters - hostile aliens who travel on live biological spaceships
Talon - smaller spaceship Akavi takes Yasira on
