![]() ![]() The story line supported by all that machinery intertwines space piracy, kidnapping, mass murder, multiple alien encounters, and the narrator’s struggle with her personal history and psychology. It also engages with questions about the nature of personality, authenticity, autonomy, and the good society (here, the galaxy-spanning Synarche). ![]() ![]() Ancestral Night, Elizabeth Bear ( Saga Press 978-1-5344-0298-0, $25.99, 499pp, hc) March 2019.Įlizabeth Bear’s Ancestral Night is a big book (with a promise of more bigness to come – the title page says it is “White Space Book 1”) crammed with a variety of SF motifs and tropes and furniture items: space operatics, interstellar civilization, Big (Variably Smart) Objects, alien encounters, deep galactic history, artificial intelligences, and neural/physical enhancements for the meat-based characters. ![]()
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