The Knife and the Serpent
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4.5 • 14 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
From Hugo Award winning author Tim Pratt comes a new, high-concept space opera, exploring technology, family and the price we pay to follow our destiny, perfect for fans of Peter F. Hamilton and Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Tamsin and Glenn, ordinary as anyone in the Bay Area. Tamsin is shocked when her grandmother is murdered.
But the surprises keep coming when she finds out that grandma was an oligarch in exile from an adjacent universe in the Nigh-Space continuum. Tamsin finds herself heir to vast wealth and a terrifying future, but the dimension-crossing killers out to exterminate her family are after her. Unless she gets them first… first…
Now Glenn has learned that his girlfriend Vivy is a secret agent for an interdimensional organisation devoted to protecting the inhabitants of Nigh-Space from fascists, tyrants, and hostile aliens. And she’s in trouble. Glenn never imagined he’d end up in another universe on a sarcastic spaceship trying to save his girlfriend, but there he is…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hugo Award winner Pratt (Prison of Sleep) puts two extraterrestrial women in a planet-shaking, winner-take-all race for love and conquest in this sci-fi romp. Vivian Sattari pretends to be a UC Berkeley grad student, but she's really an augmented human agent for the Interventionists, a multiverse-spanning group whose mission is to nudge cultures in "good directions." Meanwhile Tamsin Zmija, the granddaughter of a tech innovator, is shocked to discover her grandmother was a deposed ruler of a parallel Earth. When her downfall is traced to a universe-hopping fascist army, Tamsin gets unwanted help from Vivian, along with the welcome presence of Glenn, her ex and now Vivian's boyfriend. Trust, betrayal, jealousy, and kinky sex all mix into scenes of wounded intimacy and cinematic battles between killbots and clone armies. Though the verbal and emotional sparring between the leads can turn a bit catty, frothy humor brightens the tone. Pratt's fans will be well pleased.
