THere's a touch of Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy in here, as well as a lot of very original thought.Īt the outset, Adem, the son of the ship captain, goes planetside to arrange for a wife. It's excellent space opera with a family-owned slower than light ship making its run between post-diaspora worlds which experience decades for every year of the trader's transit. The Light Years is a wonderful debut novel from a talented writer making the transition from short stories to a longer form. Onboard the Hajj, Hisako soon learns her dilemmas are overshadowed by the discovery of ancient secrets, a derelict warship, and a chance at giving the survivors of Earth a fresh start.įile Under: Science Fiction The arcane branch of physics it requires her to study broke off a thousand years before, and she is not keen on the idea of giving up everything she knows to marry a stranger and move onto an aging spaceship. In exchange for an education, better housing for her family, and a boost out of poverty, she’s been contracted into an arranged marriage to Adem Sadiq, a maintenance engineer and amateur musician who works and lives aboard his family's sub-light freighter, the Hajj. Hisako Saski was born with her life already mapped out. A long-lost battleship and an arranged marriage may hold the key to faster-than-light travel and humanity’s future in R.W.W.
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