Future's Edge
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A gripping and heartfelt horror-tinged space adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Stars and Bones and Embers of War Readers of James S.A. Corey and Becky Chambers will love this fast-paced story of space piracy, deadly alien artifacts and a race to save what is left of humanity. When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore… Two years later, she’s plucked from a refugee camp on a backwater world and tasked with retrieving the artifact that infected her, as it just might hold the key to humanity’s survival. With time running short, and the planet housing the weapon now situated in hostile territory, she realises she’s going to have to commit an act of desperate piracy if she’s going to achieve her objective before the enemy’s final onslaught. A thrilling, page-turning journey into deep space where the fights are brutal, the relationships are complicated and the world ended years ago.
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It was always going to be hard not to give five stars to a book that features at least two Aliens quotes, but fortunately Powell backs them up with another of his trademark rollicking space operas. His usual focus on warmth and human connection is here (even if not all the leads are strictly human), but it's juggled with maybe the nastiest and most chilling villains he has come up with yet. There's no tonal whiplash though, just an emphasising of what's at stake if we lose. It's a thoroughly modern book, but still manages to evoke the sense of wonder that attracted me to the genre when I was a kid trawling the local library for classic SF.
