![]() ![]() The team has been tasked with a standard salvage operation: find a lost ship, bring it back in to the core. I came in with high expectations for both prose and character development, and I’m pleased to say that Ancestral Night lived up to all my hopes on both counts! Where The Stone in the Skull had multiple points of view and broad-spanning political themes, Ancestral Night keeps things closer to home by following only one character: a traumatized young engineer named Haimey, who is part of the crew on a space salvage rig with a shipmind AI called Singer, a rather unfairly good-looking pilot, and two absolutely delightful cats named Mephistopheles and Bushyasta. My first introduction to Elizabeth Bear was on the fantasy side with The Stone in the Skull, which I loved. ![]() ![]() “Right about now the audience is screaming, ‘Don’t open the hatch! Don’t let her in! It will kill you all!’ into their VR rigs.” “This is the setup to a space thriller,” I said. I waited, eyes closed, the fear sweat rolling down my face and between my shoulders in cold snail trails. Harder than telling my clademothers that their utopia was my hell, and I’d done that in a packet rather than to their faces. “There’s something in me.” And those were the hardest words I ever had to say. ![]()
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