Ancestral Night
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S&S/Saga Press · Ebook · December 3, 2019
“Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear’s novel sets the bar high.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.
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- Who it’s for
- A sleek, serious-space read with enough wonder to keep the page moving.
- Genres
- Space Opera, Alien Contact, Sci-Fi Adventure
- Published
- S&S/Saga Press, December 3, 2019
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“Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear’s novel sets the bar high.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear. Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually.
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Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence—with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big—just once—to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human and alien vessels. But when they make a shocking discovery about an alien species that has been long thought dead, it may be the thing that could tip the perilous peace mankind has found into full-out war. Energetic and electrifying, Ancestral Night is a dazzling space opera, sure to delight fans of Alastair Reynolds, Iain M. Banks, and Peter F. Hamilton—“Bear's ability to create breathtaking variations on ancient themes and make them new and brilliant is, perhaps, unparalleled in the genre” (Library Journal, starred review).
Into Deep Space
A sleek, serious-space read with enough wonder to keep the page moving.
Come here for
- serious spacefaring scale
- alien-contact tension with a polished, exploratory feel
Expect
- big-arc voyage energy
- study-friendly SF with an immersive stretch
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 100% |
|---|---|
| Alien Contact | 68% |
| Sci-Fi Adventure | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Space Opera
- Alien Contact
- Authors
- Elizabeth Bear
- Publisher
- S&S/Saga Press
- Published
- December 3, 2019
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Sci-Fi Adventure