On a Red Station, Drifting
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4.6 • 16 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The ebook edition of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards novella finalist, from the author of the acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy...
For generations Prosper Station has thrived under the guidance of its Honoured Ancestress: born of a human womb, the station’s artificial intelligence has offered guidance and protection to its human relatives.
But war has come to the Dai Viet Empire. Prosper’s brightest minds have been called away to defend the Emperor; and a flood of disorientated refugees strain the station’s resources. As deprivations cause the station’s ordinary life to unravel, uncovering old grudges and tearing apart the decimated family, Station Mistress Quyen and the Honoured Ancestress struggle to keep their relatives united and safe. What Quyen does not know is that the Honoured Ancestress herself is faltering, her mind eaten away by a disease that seems to have no cure; and that the future of the station itself might hang in the balance…
Customer Reviews
Secrets cut like knives.
If you can't stand miscommunications, you'll be frustrated. There's a lot of "if only people had told each other..." tragedy here. On the other hand, the "why they didn't" is logical from their personalities. And in the end, from some serious ashes, is a thread of hope.
(But you want to be in an emotional state, when you read it, to weather some character-driven train-wrecks. So much train wreck.)
It's totally a good story, though.
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