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The Dreaming Stars

By Tim Pratt
The Dreaming Stars by Tim Pratt digital book - Fable

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The crew of the White Raven returns to save the galaxy, in this brilliant space opera sequel to The Wrong Stars

Ancient aliens, the Axiom, will kill us all – when they wake up. In deep space, a swarm of nanoparticles threatens the colonies, transforming everything it meets into computronium – including the colonists. The crew of the White Raven investigate, and discover an Axiom facility filled with aliens hibernating while their minds roam a vast virtual reality. Sebastien wakes up, claiming his altered brain architecture can help the crew deactivate the swarm – from inside the Axiom simulation. To protect humanity, Callie must trust him, but if Sebastien still plans to dominate the universe using Axiom tech, they could be in a whole lot of trouble…
 
File Under: Science Fiction [ Nanowar | Let Sleeping Gods Lie | Upgraded | For the Colony ]

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23 Reviews

3.5
“(This was a buddy read, but then my buddy betrayed me and finished before me, so I had to sprint to catch up. XD) I'm not really sure what my feelings of this book are, to be honest. I definitely felt like the first part dragged and nothing particularly interesting happened, and the second part was just...confusing. It felt like everything was rushed and not fully fleshed out, and there was more than one moment when I had to go back and reread a paragraph. I didn't feel as invested in the story or the characters as I had in the first book, and I even started to severely dislike Callie by the end. Sebastian was an interesting character, but while I didn't necessarily hate the direction his character was going in, I felt like it could have been done differently and more gradually, and fleshed out futher. Also, I had many ideas on how Hypnos was going to play a bigger part in the plot, and none of those ideas is what actually happened. I was taken off guard, but honestly it just made me laugh. And when I'm supposed to be intimidated by these genocidal aliens, I don't think I'm supposed to be laughing. Overall, this was just okay. It felt really rushed in some places, and dragged out in others. I'm still intrigued enough by the end to want to pick up the third book at some point, but I'm not as enthusiastic as I was when I first started the series.”
“Read those one faster than the first one. Excited to read the third and final chapter. Love this world and the characters.”

About Tim Pratt

TIM PRATT is a Hugo Award-winning SF and fantasy author, and has been a finalist for World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic, and Nebula Awards, among others. He is the author of over twenty novels, most recently The Deep Woods and Heirs of Grace, and scores of short stories. His work has been reprinted in The Best American Short StoriesThe Year's Best FantasyThe Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and other nice places. Since 2001 he has worked for Locus, the magazine of the science fiction and fantasy field, where he currently serves as senior editor. He lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife and son.

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