Stars and Bones
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Stars and Bones
Buy Now for $26.99
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Narrated by:
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Rebecca Norfolk
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By:
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Gareth L. Powell
About this listen
From the multi BSFA award-winner comes a stunningly inventive action-packed science-fiction epic adventure. A brand-new series for fans of Becky Chambers and Ann Leckie.
Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities.
When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly. When the threat follows her back to the fleet and people start dying, she is tasked with seeking out a legendary recluse who may just hold the key to humanity's survival.
Gareth L. Powell's Embers of War won 2018 BSFA Award for Best Novel and was shortlisted for the 2019 Locus Awards and the 2021 Seiun Awards in Japan. Its sequels, Fleet of Knives and Light of Impossible Stars, were both shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Best Novel, and Fleet of Knives was also shortlisted for the 2020 Locus Awards.
Critic Reviews
"Gareth Powell drops you into the action from the first page and then Just. Keeps. Going. This is a pro at the top of his game." (John Scalzi)
"A headlong, visceral plunge into a future equal parts fascinating and terrifying." (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
Soooo many words mispronounced!!!
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Got derailed by sort of teen angst that wasn't quite teen. More like navel-gazing melodrama combined with insincere character and emotional development.
Characters making dumb b-grade horror cliche moves and coming up with inane but mostly predictable solutions to solve their problems, just with a sci-fi twist.
Lots of irritating preachy moments, rants about the evils of capitalism and religion, etc. How superior their current society was, while sounding mostly boring and soul-crushing.
Repetitive phrases and statements that really jarred, especially when the narrator kept flubbing their pronunciation in between it all.
The main character's seeming obsession with 'soft lips' when they'd basically just lost their civilisation was both ludicrous and weird, especially as the other character seemed to not have much else going for them except the misfortune of being there and the (much) afore-mentioned lips.
Everyone was unlikeable.
The few good ideas were the only thing that kept me reading.
The narrator was not great.
I felt like it was a YA submission for some contest that got points for ticking the boxes of climate change, inclusion of various groups or minorities or something, so nobody cared it was badly written and thought out and mostly undeveloped.
Interesting premise barely held it together.
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