An Unkindness of Ghosts

Rivers Solomon

eBook - 2017

A breathtaking science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler. —One of Esquire magazine's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time "Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery, feudalism, prison, and religion that kicks like rotgut moonshine . . . Stunning." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, ...Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like...

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Published
Akashic Books, Ltd.
Language
English
Main Author
Rivers Solomon
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size4 GB
ISBN9781617755996
Release Date10/3/2017
Kindle Book
ASINB0CRLBDBTD
Release Date10/3/2017
OverDrive Read eBook
File Size4 GB
ISBN9781617755996
Release Date10/3/2017