1996 SF. Reva is an assassin with a strange power: she can jump
between similar timelines, so that chance is always on her side.
She'll need more than that to survive her latest entanglements,
though.
This is also a cyberpunk world (or rather space empire), and we
have implants and netrunners and crime lords and corrupt cops. It's
not noir exactly, but it does explore how you can try to be a good
person even while doing necessary bad things.
Meanwhile we have female characters with exactly as much agency as the
men, multiple overlapping factions that collide as they pick the same
moment to spring their coups, and an alien assassin with his own
system of ethics.
All right, there is the classic first-novel problem of trying to cram
in everything, but it still works remarkably well.
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