Books Read: Persephone Station
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abracanabraPersephone Station by Stina Leicht (2021)
TBR Stack, Book 1 of 52
This is the cyberiest of cyberpunk, with an overlay of "first alien contact gone wrong." It reminded me quite strongly of CJ Cherryh's more action-driven SF, and of Pat Cadigan's steampunk work.
Set in the far future on a hostile alien planet and starring a rag-tag crew of enforcers that are as much family as they are battle-buddies... No, starring an immortal, nonbinary gangster don with secret enemies and allies... No, I take that back, the real star of the book is an empathetic AGI (artificial general intelligence) newly decanted into a biological body on a mission of mercy. Eventually all their different conflicts converge, and the ending was a satisfactory series of new beginnings.
Recommended.
Apparently there's another in the series?!? Different main characters, and it came out last year in 2023. Hey, this "52 Books in a Year" challenge was supposed to be *shrinking* my TBR stack!
TBR Stack, Book 1 of 52
This is the cyberiest of cyberpunk, with an overlay of "first alien contact gone wrong." It reminded me quite strongly of CJ Cherryh's more action-driven SF, and of Pat Cadigan's steampunk work.
Set in the far future on a hostile alien planet and starring a rag-tag crew of enforcers that are as much family as they are battle-buddies... No, starring an immortal, nonbinary gangster don with secret enemies and allies... No, I take that back, the real star of the book is an empathetic AGI (artificial general intelligence) newly decanted into a biological body on a mission of mercy. Eventually all their different conflicts converge, and the ending was a satisfactory series of new beginnings.
Recommended.
Apparently there's another in the series?!? Different main characters, and it came out last year in 2023. Hey, this "52 Books in a Year" challenge was supposed to be *shrinking* my TBR stack!