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 ReviewAster 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... more