Raven's Rook

De: Seaby Brown

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

"Silent alarms screamed throughout the empty corridors. Automated damage reports flashed through the ship's systems with no living soul to read them. The ship, entering the heliopause of its destination star at one-tenth the speed of light, had been struck by something that blasted through the forward ablative shield, spraying the forward storage bays with debris and destroying vital equipment.The crew, thirty-two biomimetic brains tucked away in the aft engineering section had no time to spare thinking about the lost inventory, nor about what it would mean to the probable success of the mission. The ship was now careening out of balance, spinning off axis at several revolutions per minute. The attitude control system was never designed to overcome an extreme event. The ship was in danger of breaking up.“Houston, we have —” one of the crew said on the open comm.“Shut up, Capability! This isn’t time for your stupid jokes!” Constance told her on a private channel. "Dustin of Cliff House lives on Terranova, a bioengineered paradise where magic is seemingly real and crows talk. Living in a neolithic culture, he dreams of distant fabled Earth where a different kind of magic existed — or did it? A lonely, bullied orphan, he wonders if there’s a place in this world for him. Can Dustin find the courage to stand up for himself and find his own path?A different kind of coming of age story where a young man and his friends, discovering the keys that will lead their culture to a technomagical renaissance, embark on an impossible journey to Raven’s Rook, where no human has visited for millenia. Raven’s Rook, second in the All The Stars Are Suns saga, stands on its own, but continues the story of Quan Yin and the crew of the seed ship Challenger, launched to spread humanity and Earth’s ecosystems out to the stars.Seaby Brown brings character driven story telling and exotic world building that only a successful high tech futurist / inventor / entrepreneur can deliver.

Science Fiction Meets Fantasy

Dustin of Cliff House, a bullied orphan who lives on the bioengineered world of Terranova must leave his clan to make his way in the world. On his travels he meets many different peoples and learns skills that he can use to enhance his and others survival. The second book in the All the Stars Are Suns Saga, Dustin, in a coming of age adventure must travel to Ravens Rook, where no human has ever visited to meet his and humanity's destiny. The story ties in nicely with the first book making sure that the reader knows that there is something out there in the stars looking out after humanity. Science and fantasy in harmony. Highly recommended. 5 stars.