A Queer Space Opera
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It's her first job...and it's already going wrong.
Freshly graduated from university with a degree in engineering, Crystal approaches her placement on the wormhole-constructive ship Crossing Paths with nothing but enthusiasm. But while Crystal gets used to the ins and outs of a multispecies, multicultural ship, tension brews both at work and back home.
Not murdering her coworker Jai is hard enough; the last thing she needs are the terrifying errors cropping up on her maps. Reality and space are either tearing themselves apart - or someone else is attacking them. With conspiracies lurking everywhere, friendship won't be enough to see her through these dangerous new problems...
Fans of Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series will enjoy this sometimes joyful, sometimes dark personal adventure set in a world of politics, bureaucracy - and piracy.
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Genres:
Tropes: Asteroid Miner, Band of Misfits, Conspiracy, Dystopian Governments, FTL, Galactic Civilization, Here Comes the Cavalry, Interstellar Travel, Reluctant Hero, Space Battles, Space Pirates, Space Smugglers
Setting: Space
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Tropes: Asteroid Miner, Band of Misfits, Conspiracy, Dystopian Governments, FTL, Galactic Civilization, Here Comes the Cavalry, Interstellar Travel, Reluctant Hero, Space Battles, Space Pirates, Space Smugglers
Setting: Space
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Courtney Nicole on Goodreads wrote:I am a huge fan of this authors's books and this one did not disappoint. Wormholes repaired? Who knew? But the newly graduated heroine is certainly capable of determining what should be done in a crisis. This book has it all - pirates, threats, love story, and all wonderfully crafted in Mrs. Browne's highly creative mind. Each time I finish one of her books, I find myself looking forward to the next one and that alone makes this author worth reading. While this is not a common genre for me, she has made the benchmark very, very high and her works will always be the judgment backdrop for me.
Once again, Ms. Browne, a story well told and as usual, I lost myself in your world!
Stars Rank: 5 *****
"I'll be helping to calculate the location of the wormhole, an important part of the job. If you don't put the damn thing in the right place, you might accidently cause a rip or tear in the wrong place and cause a radical wormhole, the kind that can go, well, anywhere. You might end up halfway across the universe, or even in another dimension."
I’ll start off by mentioning I was intending on not even writing a review on this novella, but it was so good, in personal opinion, that I had to. I give the book five stars because within 30 pages Browne did so much with the story that I have to give her props. Within that little bit she made me connected with the characters. Giving them such depth that I wanted to help with their problems, cheer some up, explore the universe with them and fight along side them! It really is such an awesome read and I wish that it was a proper 300 some-odd-page book, maybe novella part 2? If that’s a thing..
If any of you like a true Sci-Fi story, action fighting scenes, aliens and space pirates then this is for you… trust me the 30 pages won’t be a waste, at least I don’t think so.
