I Read Stories: A Stick Of Clay, In The Hands Of God, has Infinite Potential by Jy Neon Yang
Stick is the pilot of a mech, Phoenix. They are fighting apostates and nothing can stop the mechs. Nothing except the apostates' own mechs, controlled by Stick’s mech-sigil, Versus, God’s perfect weapon. The confrontation comes.
But perhaps there is another way to stop them. Doubt, and identity. Stick, made in a lab to be a partner to Versus, thinks of itself as an it, to the dismay of a former slave who has been called it.
A set of not-quite dove-tailing ideas tie together into a story that is expansive and satisfying, not solving the problems of war, theology and personality it sets up, but offering a way of moving on.
Read This: For a story of mech action and personal angst
Don’t Read This: If you don’t want to read about weird ways people have of dealing with unimaginable backstories
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