An Unkindness of Ghosts
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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Akashic Books, Ltd.
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- English
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File Size | 4 GB |
ISBN | 9781617755996 |
Release Date | 10/3/2017 |
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ASIN | B0CRLBDBTD |
Release Date | 10/3/2017 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
File Size | 4 GB |
ISBN | 9781617755996 |
Release Date | 10/3/2017 |