The Long Shot
Two women hold the fate of the galaxy in their hands - if they can solve a mystery 4.5 billion years old...
Hornet Abernathy is a college student who dreams of joining the Starship Corps: The elite protectors of the utopian Galactic Concord. Created by transferring a biological mind into a mechanical body, crewed by digitized experts and capable of saving - or destroying - entire worlds, Starships are famous and beloved by billions of sophonts across the galaxy.
Tulon is a warrior-woman on an aquatic, bronze aged world that has never known visitors from the stars...until one of the Starship Corps crashes on their islands. Caught in a desperate war between the islanders who long for freedom and an Empire bearing muskets and cannons, Tulon must work with this stranger from the skies if she has any hope of securing her freedom.
And threatening both is something terrible. Something ancient. Something unstoppable. Something that will burn out the stars themselves...if they don't stop it...
With a sprawling cast of characters and a vast setting inspired by The Ship Who Sang (McCaffrey) and A Deepness In The Sky (Vinge), THE LONG SHOT is like nothing you've seen before.
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(Originally bought on Amazon, which didn't let me post the following review:)
The Dragon Cobolt is a master of setting design, and it really shows here. Despite being familiar with some of the inspirations, the characters and the many spins change it into a delightfully fresh experience. Each chapter brings something new, and I think this is one of those settings that'll stick in my mind for a while. Having read some of the author's work before, I am pleased to note that the tendency I've observed for the sex scenes to be cute even for someone like me who isn't typically a sex fan holds true.
I am an easily distracted person- and this is a book I found difficult to put down. It manages to blend the sci-fi eras of its inspirations fantastically- a well-made work that reminds the reader of the best of the decades of work that inspired it (I found myself looking up SKJ and Carenwine in case they were direct references) while still being as finely-honed and, frankly, willing to be silly as it should be.
All in all... a thoroughly enjoyable book, with a setting well-placed between the odd end of sci-fi (scales beyond vast, pure sense-of-wonder, odd ways of thought) and the provocative end of superhero stories (i don't need to explain that one). The characters are, well, relatable and sexy despite their far-future setting. One last thought- Gosh, the twists in this thing. They're delightful, and the ending immensely satisfying.