2014 science fiction novella in the Diving Universe series. When the
Ivoire is attacked and disappears, Captain Sabin and the Geneva
lead the search mission…
The overt tension here is about the Ivoire, which the regular
reader knows isn't going to be resolved (she's been projected far into
the future, into the events of the main narrative of the series). But
that's not what the piece is about – rather, it's about Sabin,
the forces that have made her the captain she is, and her flaws, both
the ones she can acknowledge and the ones she can't.
So while it has the outer form of a space adventure, this is really
much more a story about an individual. I admit I'd have liked also
to read more about the mysterious attackers who triggered the incident
in the first place, but given that this is a novella, I don't want to
give up any of what's here to make room for it.
After an unpromising start, therefore, I found this rather fine –
though beware of booksellers who want you to pay a full novel price
for these 20,000 words.
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