Publisher	Westland Books
Publication Year	2024
ISBN-13	9789360451158
ISBN-10	9360451150
Binding	Paperback
Number of Pages	352 Pages
Language	(English)
Weight (grms)	312
Subject	Science Fiction

Rivers Solomon

RIVERS SOLOMON’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DEBUT (LEE CHILD CALLED IT ‘PHENOMENAL’) EXAMINES CLASS, RACE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE TELLING OF A RIP-ROARING SPACE ADVENTURE. A breath taking science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler. 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 Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot—if she’s willing to sow the seeds of civil war.