Butler.Suffused with the past, the present, and the future of human experiences in its events, An Unkindness of Ghosts launches the career of a brilliantly gifted and important new writer in science fiction." "With An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon inarguably shows themselves to be a literary child of genre leader Octavia E. Publishers Weekly included in Fall 2017 Adult Announcements, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, sharecropper Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it."
"The HSS Matilda is a generation ship organized much like the antebellum South. Buzzfeed, Included in 28 Exciting New Books You Need to Read This Fall When she discovers clues about the circumstances of her mother's death, she also comes closer to disturbing truths about the ship and its journey." "In Rivers Solomon's highly imaginative sci-fi novel An Unkindness of Ghosts, eccentric Aster was born into slavery on-and is trying to escape from-a brutally segregated spaceship that for generations has been trying to escort the last humans from a dying planet to a Promised Land. An entertaining novel that does not neglect the vitality of its story while probing society’s assumptions."
"The HSS Matilda is a well-crafted world, and.the diversity of the people who inhabit it-their various sexual and gender identities, physical abilities, and psychological burdens-is refreshingly visible and vital even as they face brutal discrimination for their differences. Solomon's impassioned, speculative, literary book is sorely needed on library shelves." "Infused with the spirit of Octavia Butler and loaded with meaning for the present day, An Unkindness of Ghosts will appeal to a wide variety of readers. "Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery, feudalism, prison, and religion that kicks like rotgut moonshine.Stunning."
While a story about enslaved people in space could be a one-note polemic, the fully rounded characters bring nuance and genuine pathos to this amazing debut."
"Harrowing and beautiful, this is SF at its best: showing the possible future but warning of the danger of bringing old prejudices and cruelties to that new world.
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