The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley is a bio horror space opera novel that takes place in a world of organic technology and all-female characters. The story follows Zan, who wakes up with no memory and must navigate the decaying world ships of the Legion to confront the horrors within, all while trying to uncover the mysteries of her past and the ultimate goal of reaching the ship called Mokshi. The writing style of the book is described as intricate, with detailed world-building that creates a unique and immersive setting, while exploring themes of survival, sacrifice, and the complexities of female relationships in a brutal and unforgiving world.
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Content warnings include body horror, cannibalism, violence, and themes of trauma and memory loss.
Has Romance?
While there is romance present, particularly between the main characters, the relationships are complex and often fraught with tension and manipulation.
From The Publisher:
"[A] thought-provoking space opera." -Kirkus Reviews
"One of the most unusual and powerfully disturbing space operas we're likely to see this year." -Chicago Tribune
Set within a system of decaying world-ships travelling through deep space, this breakout novel of epic science fiction follows a pair of sisters who must wrest control of their war-torn legion of worlds-and may have to destroy everything they know in order to survive.
Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is traveling in the seams between the stars. Here in the darkness, a war for control of the Legion has been waged for generations, with no clear resolution.
Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who say there are her family. She is told she is their salvation, the only person capable of boarding the Mokshi, a world-ship with the power to leave the Legion. But Zan's new family is not the only one desperate to gain control of the prized ship. Zan finds that she must choose sides in a genocidal campaign that will take her from the edges of the Legion's gravity well to the very belly of the world.
In the tradition of Iain M. Banks's Culture novels and Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, Kameron Hurley has created an epic and thrilling tale about tragic love, revenge, and war as imagined by one of our most celebrated new writers.
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I wanted to like this, I thought I would but nope. I will continue my search for sci-fi I like
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About the Author:
Kameron Hurley is the acclaimed author of the novels God's War, The Mirror Empire, and The Light Brigade. Hurley has been awarded two Hugo Awards, the Kitschies Award for Best Debut Novel, and has also been a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction and Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award. Visit the author online at KameronHurley.com or on Twitter at @KameronHurley.
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