The Diamond Deep
Pyr · Paperback · October 8, 2013
What if a woman as strong and as complex as Eva Perón began her life as a robot repair assistant threatened by a powerful peacekeeping force that wants to take all she has from her?
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in a generation ship returning to a changed home system
- Themes
- Oppression, Social hierarchy, Collective survival
- Genres
- Space Opera, Space Exploration Fiction, Dystopian
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What if a woman as strong and as complex as Eva Perón began her life as a robot repair assistant threatened by a powerful peacekeeping force that wants to take all she has from her? The discovery ship, Creative Fire, is on its way home from a multi-generational journey. But home is nothing like the crew expected. They have been gone for generations, and the system they return to is home to technologies and riches beyond their wildest dreams.
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But they are immediately oppressed and relegated to the lowest status imaginable, barely able to interact with the technologies and people of the star station where they dock, the Diamond Deep. Ruby Martin and her partner, Joel North, must find a way to learn what they need to know and to become more than they have ever been if they are to find a way to save their people.
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in a generation ship returning to a changed home system
- Readers drawn to stories of a crew facing oppression and seeking to save their people
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 67% |
|---|---|
| Dystopian | 31% |
| Space Exploration Fiction | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sci-Fi
- Space Opera
- Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
- Authors
- Brenda Cooper
- Publisher
- Pyr
- Published
- October 8, 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Oppression · Social hierarchy · Collective survival
- Reading lane
- Sci-Fi