Dark Space: The Sentients of Orion Book 1 - Softcover

De Pierres, Marianne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841494283 ISBN 13: 9781841494289

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, 2009

Synopsis

While drifting in space, lost due to navigational failure, a mineral scout discovers God. When word gets out, academics from the studiums across Orion scramble to gain the Entity’s favor. However, not all the sentients of Orion hold this "god" in awe some, like the philosophers of Scolar and the Transhumans of Extropy are deeply suspicious. Onto the grand stage of interplanetary academic politics, intellectual conceit, and dubious theology walks Baronessa Mira Fedor. Her planet has been torn apart by the invasion of a race of giant tardigrades. Only the Orion League of Sentient Species can lend aid, but OLOSS is preoccupied with communicating with God. Mira, together with the rowdy, misogynist Jo-Jo Rasterovich, is left to her own resources to find help. In doing so she unmasks a galaxy-sized intrigue. But will she live long enough to tell anyone?

About this title

About the Author:

Marianne de Pierres is the author of the Parrish Plessis series—Code Noir, Crash Deluxe, and Nylon Angel—which has been adapted into a role-playing game.

Review:

Dark Space is an exciting adventure with plenty going on to keep you turning the pages. The story is primed to enter uncharted territory at the end of Book One. Marianne has a knack for creating compelling characters in complex realities-the Parish Pless * AUREALIS * A complex and exciting novel, almost devoid of cheap sentiment and comfortable vindication. It's not a cheerful read, but it is a very rewarding one . . . de Pierre s' willingness to display the imperfections of her characters is a large part of the appeal of Dark Space; she deftly handles the aspects of bringing characters to life that elude so many space opera writers, simply by making them genuinely human - with all the contradictory drives and motives that implies . . . While a deeply political book, Dark Space is also a very engaging one - the fine characterisation and subtle writing make for a novel which is both exciting and thought-provoking at once . . . It's always a joy to find intelligent and exciting space opera; to find it being written by a woman unafraid to bring her own perspective to a traditionally masculine genre, doubly so. * SCALPEL MAGAZINE * Dark Space is a rich and vigorous adventure and a promising first instalment * THE AUSTRALIAN * DARK SPACE lacks focus, but the colourful characters and sense of scale suggest that the series could develop into something special * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1841494283
• ISBN 13: 9781841494289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432