Orbital Resonance | 
pickMore than anything this felt like a lower-stakes gender-swapped Ender‘s Game, but I mean that as a compliment.
Melpomene Murray is coming of age on one of the first asteroid colonies, a necessity for the human race as Earth‘s systems crumble. Teen drama blends with some great sci-fi as Melpomene uncovers the complex layers of social engineering & manipulation that have gone into raising her generation, the 1st born in space.
TobeyTheScavengerMonk This is the 11th & final novel of my #SummerOfShort3 Y‘know, exactly one year ago I would have enjoyed the sci-fi aspects but thought “There‘s no way teens actually talk and act like this.” After a year of teaching 8th grade I‘m astounded at how right John Barnes got it. 5y
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