Review copy provided by the publisher. Also the author is an\nonline friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a debut novel of a kind of science fiction loads of\nmy friends are constantly (no, CONSTANTLY) telling me they do not see enough.\nIt’s planets-and-aliens science fiction! It’s got space stations and\nsettlements and lots of divergence\/diversity of human culture and a very big\nuniverse and spaceships that think and people disagreeing about who counts as\npeople! Adventure! Excitement! We may know that a Jedi craves not these things,\nbut that doesn’t seem to stop the majority of my social circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, here you go, friends, here’s a one of these, and it is\nfun and satisfying and has an ending that leaves a lot of room without being\nmaddeningly open. This is a book, not a chunk of story approximately\nbook-shaped. Fergus Ferguson (under various aliases) and his allies (maybe\nfriends? They’re working on that?) unravel mysteries, fight bad guys, and come\nup with plans so zany they just might work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or not, but then something else needs to, and that’s okay\ntoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t want to spoil too many elements of Finder, because\nturning a corner and finding I was not quite where I expected to be was part of\nthe fun of this book. I will say that there are a lot of elements that I’m used\nto having set up for two, three, five books later, and while there is plenty of\nroom in this universe for interesting stories, Palmer is not hoarding her\nideas. She’s giving us a fireworks-filled book. Or sometimes a tennis-ball-filled\nbook. Um. Just go read it, okay? You’ll find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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