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Steel Frame
Steel Frame | Andrew Skinner
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FLY HARD. Rook is a Jockey, a soldier trained to fly ‘Shells,’ huge robots that fight for the edge of settled space. When her squad is overrun and killed, Rook is imprisoned, left scarred and broken. Hollow and helpless without her steel frame, she’s ready to call it quits. Then she’s sold to NorCol, a vast frontier corporation, given another Shell—a near-decrepit Juno, as broken as she is and centuries older—and sent to a rusting bucket of a ship to patrol “the Eye,” an unnerving permanent storm in space. Where something is stirring...
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imyril
Steel Frame | Andrew Skinner

This is the unholy offspring of a one night stand between Pacific Rim and Battlestar Galactica. I‘m loving it.

imyril IT‘S OKAY, SHE‘S NUCLEAR 🤖 4y
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imyril
Steel Frame | Andrew Skinner

‘If someone calls, you go. Into the fire, if that‘s what it takes. Into the wind, even if it‘s blowing full of hate and cinders. Towards the screams, if they‘re lucky. Into the quiet if not.‘

Took me a chapter or two to settle down but we‘re right in with a battered search & rescue protagonist and a hunk of renegade junk steel and I‘m buckled up for the ride. Let‘s cancel the apocalypse, Rook.

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