Enjoyable series set during the 20s, with a bit more romance than I generally like but at least it doesn't take away from the story. The magic is interesting and makes it better. Will probably continue the series.
pick(1955) This opener to Norton's "Solar Queen" series, following the adventures of an interplanetary trading ship, is one of my favorites from her. In this one, the crew make a risky gamble buying the trading rights to a newly-discovered planet sight-unseen. They are devastated to learn the trading rights are practically worthless -- and then the adventure begins.
She held onto Cian‘s hand so tight at first, and then it happened again and she was off—off her feet and in the water and she let go of Cian‘s hand and she looked at him.
And then she laughed.
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Great ships are being killed. An orphan, just out of school is assigned to a great ship and she travels out into the black to find her future, see aliens and find a way to reinstate herself as head of her family.
Enjoyable space battles, lots of tech and science which I love. Aliens are, uhm, alien, and the secret behind the attacked Great Ships becomes even muddier.
pick(1999) Space station Jocasta is in a system under siege, though the besieging aliens are not clear about what they want. Just as Jocasta's commander devises a plan to sneak a drone out of the system, another ship sneaks *in*: an ancient 21st-century corpsicle ship that really shouldn't be there at all. And from there things get really weird, with murders, monsters, and interspecies politics. Good fun for the crowd that liked Babylon 5 or DS9.
Two books I bought today judged solely by their covers.
The Alien Way has a cover by my favourite sci fi artist, Bruce Pennington, so the contents are secondary, but for what it's worth, it's an alien invasion story which sounds like it could be pretty good.
A Book of the Sea beguiled me with that sailing ship, but the contents are not short stories, which I'd assumed, but extracts from longer works, which I tend not to like, but 🤷♂️
And now for the bingos. #ISpyBingoSeptOct
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