Jacob's Ladder series book 01
Read By: Alma Cuervo

Bear proves there's still juice in one of science fiction's oldest tropes,
the stranded generation ship, in this complex coming-of-age tale. Rien,
a handmaid in a feudal society, must care for the prisoner Ser Percevala
mutilated enemy who Rien discovers is her half-sister by an absent scion
of the ruling family.

Their quest for a safer home tangles with their society's own quest for
safety, as the descendents of an artificial intelligence and the
genetically engineered crew battle for control to save the ship from an
impending supernova.

Standard plot devices litter the familiar landscape: tarot, pseudo-
angels, named swords with powers, and politics as a family quarrel.
Butt Campbell Awardwinning author Bear uses them beautifully to turn
up the pressure on her characters, who respond by making hard choices.
And, as she did in Carnival and Hammered, Bear breaks sexual taboos
matter-of-factly, love in varied forms drives the characters without
offering easy redemption.

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