Bluebird
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
**SHORTLISTED for the COMPTON CROOK AWARD, 2023**
Lesbian gunslinger fights spies in space!
Three factions vie for control of the galaxy. Rig, a gunslinging, thieving, rebel with a cause, doesn’t give a damn about them and she hasn’t looked back since abandoning her faction three years ago.
That is, until her former faction sends her a message: return what she stole from them, or they’ll kill her twin sister.
Rig embarks on a journey across the galaxy to save her sister – but for once she’s not alone. She has help from her network of resistance contacts, her taser-wielding librarian girlfriend, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
If Rig fails and her former faction finds what she stole from them, trillions of lives will be lost--including her sister's. But if she succeeds, she might just pull the whole damn faction system down around their ears. Either way, she’s going to do it with panache and pizzazz.
File Under: Science Fiction [ Independent Women | Robbing Hood | Keep Your Enemies Close | Guns Don’t Kill People ]
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Pieriot's action-packed but by-the-numbers sci-fi debut plainly collages Star Wars, Firefly, and Mass Effect with a queer twist—but remains too slight to stand out. Three years ago, weapons developer Rig burned a city to stop Pyrite, the faction that indentured her, from using her research in a genocide against her own race. Now one of the Nightbirds, refugee-rescuers and saboteurs against the three ancient, constantly warring factions, she has her own ship, Bluebird, and a librarian lover, June, who hails from the spiritual Ascetic faction. But when Pyrite abducts the twin sister Rig left behind, Rig and Ginka, a mysterious operative from Ossuary, the megalomaniacal third faction, work together to rescue her. This quest leads them through glittering ballrooms and secret space stations, but everybody wants Rig's weaponry, and only her tenuous cross-faction alliances will get her out alive. Polished prose keeps the numerous battle scenes and side quests moving, but endless Whedonesque banter leaves most characters indistinguishable. Meanwhile, attempts to tackle more serious refugee issues are mishandled. Firefly devotees may appreciate this well-crafted but lightweight homage, but others can skip it.
