Sunward A novel

William Alexander, 1976-

Book - 2025

"Captain Tova Lir chose a life as a courier rather than get involved in her family's illustrious business in politics. Set in humanity's far future, hiring a planetary courier is essential for delivering private messages across the stars. Encouraged by friends, Tova begins mentoring baby bots, juvenile AI who are developmentally in their teens, and trains them how to interact within society, essentially becoming their foster mom. Her latest charge, Agatha Panza von Sparkles, named herself on their first run from Luna to Phoebe station. But on their return, they encounter a derelict spaceship and a lurking assassin, igniting a thrilling chase across the solar system. Tova and Agatha's daring actions leave Agatha's mi...nd vulnerable, relying on Tova's former AI pupils for help. As Tova starts gathering her scattered family around her, she is chased through the solar system by forces who want her captured and her family erased."--

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Subjects
Genres
Space operas (Fiction)
Science fiction
Novels
Published
New York, NY : Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2025.
Language
English
Main Author
William Alexander, 1976- (-)
Edition
First Saga Press trade paperback edition
Physical Description
211 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781668058053
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Review by Library Journal Review

National Book Award-winning children's author Alexander (A Festival of Ghosts) makes his adult debut with this cozy science fiction story. Captain Tova Lir trains baby bots to become independent pilots and couriers in her tiny transport ship. Her current job veers off course when she picks up a dead courier with a blank message. She tries to outrun the trouble she knows is coming, but her current trainee, Agatha Panza von Sparkles, gets damaged and can only be healed if Tova can keep herself and Agatha together long enough to find a bot that's on the run. The bot is escaping a widespread conspiracy to blame bots for everything wrong in this postapocalyptic solar system. Tova will have to stay one step ahead of family agents and corporate assassins in order to save the family she's made--and to let them save her. VERDICT Recommend to readers who enjoy mercantile empire space opera, sapphic frenemy romances, found-family stories, and narratives where robots and artificial intelligences save the day. Readers who loved Aimee Ogden's Emergent Properties, Silvia Park's Luminous, and Aliette de Bodard's Navigational Entanglements will find this to be a delightful combination of similar elements.--Marlene Harris

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