To.sleep in a sea of stars1/4/2023 They're also joined on the trip by Jorrus and Veera, two people joined in a hive mind who often finish each others' sentences. The interactions between Kira and Gregorovich remind me a lot of the interactions between Sanda Greeve and Bero from Velocity Weapon, which endeared me a lot to both characters. The Wallfish also has it's own Ship Mind, the bombastic and mildly insane Gregorovich (who, in my opinion, the most entertaining character in the book), who was scavenged from a crashed freighter in which he was the sole survivor. There is also Nielsen, the chronically ill first officer, Vishal, the doormat Medical officer, Sparrow, the hardened security officer who is in a relationship with Hwa-Jung, the ship's rather blunt chief engineer, and of course Runcible the pig and Mr. The Wallfish, captained by Salvatore Falconi, a hard on the outside but soft on the inside. She is wracked by guilt over all the people whose deaths she has both directly and indirectly caused, including her fiancée Alan, but never seems to lose her basic humanity, trying her best to use the Soft Blade's ever-expanding capabilities to help those around her. TO.SLEEP IN A SEA OF STARS SKINAn accident leaves her bonded with an alien entity called The Soft Blade, which takes the form of a black second skin that covers her entire body except her face. The story follows Kira Navárez, a xenobiologist from Weyland, a planet orbiting around the star Epsilon Indi. sometimes Paolini writes screams out loud, which at least for me killed the dramatic tension a bit, they were extremely infrequent and the rest of the book holds up enough that I can forgive them.Ī good chunk of the book is spent on character interaction. While I did have some quibbles with the writing, e.g. This book, however, demonstrates that Paolini has really upped his writing game, creating a truly massive universe on par with something like Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series, while still managing to keep a very human touch to the story. I know Paolini gets some flak from some corners of the literary world for essentially ripping off the original trilogy of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings in the creation of The Inheritance Cycle. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…īestselling author Christopher Paolini has switched from fantasy to science fiction in his first book aimed at adults. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life.
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