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The first in a trilogy of “wicked, fast-paced, and fun” sci-fi capers starring an interstellar repo man and professional finder (Elizabeth Bear, Hugo Award–winning author of Ancestral Night).
“The zippier, zanier side of space opera.” —B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog
Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder. His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. He’ll slip in, decode the ship’s compromised AI security, and get out of town, Sword in hand.
Fergus locates both Gilger and the ship in the farthest corner of human-inhabited space, a backwater deep space colony called Cernee. But Fergus’ arrival at the colony is anything but simple. A cable car explosion launches Cernee into civil war, and Fergus must ally with Gilger’s enemies to navigate a field of space mines and a small army of hostile mercenaries. What was supposed to be a routine job evolves into negotiating a power struggle between factions. Even worse, Fergus has become increasingly—and inconveniently—invested in the lives of the locals.
It doesn’t help that a dangerous alien species Fergus thought mythical prove unsettlingly real, and their ominous triangle ships keep following him around.
Foolhardy. Eccentric. Reckless. Whatever he’s called, Fergus will need all the help he can get to take back the Sword and maybe save Cernee from destruction in the process.
The first in a trilogy of “wicked, fast-paced, and fun” sci-fi capers starring an interstellar repo man and professional finder (Elizabeth Bear, Hugo Award–winning author of Ancestral Night).
“The zippier, zanier side of space opera.” —B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog
Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder. His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. He’ll slip in, decode the ship’s compromised AI security, and get out of town, Sword in hand.
Fergus locates both Gilger and the ship in the farthest corner of human-inhabited space, a backwater deep space colony called Cernee. But Fergus’ arrival at the colony is anything but simple. A cable car explosion launches Cernee into civil war, and Fergus must ally with Gilger’s enemies to navigate a field of space mines and a small army of hostile mercenaries. What was supposed to be a routine job evolves into negotiating a power struggle between factions. Even worse, Fergus has become increasingly—and inconveniently—invested in the lives of the locals.
It doesn’t help that a dangerous alien species Fergus thought mythical prove unsettlingly real, and their ominous triangle ships keep following him around.
Foolhardy. Eccentric. Reckless. Whatever he’s called, Fergus will need all the help he can get to take back the Sword and maybe save Cernee from destruction in the process.
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claire
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“This was so very enjoyable, I stayed up until 3 AM to finish the first book. It is a little slow at first, and I did think about a DNF more than once or at least a quote. Listen to this again later a few weeks from now. "
I know it's funny to say that it was slow at first considering the opening scene, but the following few chapters was just not at a pace That I preferred.
I didn't expect that we would get Fergus backstory though. But even then, I'm not sure. I am interested in reading the rest of this series. But it's possible that might change just out of curiosity. I think it's the episode format that troubled me, though I have no aversion to it, but I think it's a bit of a hit or miss for books.
*I am not sure I am interested…*Episodic
This was still very fun though, despite the slow beginning. Once you get to the 40% point, the story really starts picking up. But then it slows down again. Fergus is kind of carted around all over the universe HAHA and he almost dies multiple times .
I was a little confused about the man at the end though. I still don't know if Fergus knew him or watt but I think I should listen to that part again in case I missed anything. There's also a lot of stuff I probably missed about the motorcycle keys”
aj
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“This was so quirky and delightful.”
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“This was a standard adventure story with a sci-fi setting. There were no big concepts and not much social deconstruction/analysis. So it was adventure for adventure's sake... which is fine. I had no trouble finishing the book but felt little drive to continue the series.”
About Suzanne Palmer
Suzanne Palmer is an award-winning and acclaimed writer of science fiction. In 2018, she won a Hugo Award for Best Novelette for “The Secret Life of Bots”. Her short fiction has won readers’ awards for Asimov’s, Analog, and Interzone magazines, and has been included in the Locus Recommended Reading List. Her work has also been features in numerous anthologies, and she has twice been a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and once for the Eugie M. Foster Memorial Award. Palmer has a Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where as a student she was president and head librarian of the UMass Science Fiction Society. She currently lives in western Massachusetts and is a Linux and database system administrator at Smith College. You can find her online at zanzjan.net and on Twitter at @zanzjan.
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