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On a broken ship orbiting a doomed sun, dwellers have grown complacent with their aging metal world. But when a serving girl frees a captive noblewoman, the old order is about to change...

Ariane, Prince of the House of Rule, was known to be fiercely cold-blooded. But severing an angel's wings on the battlefield - even after she had surrendered - proved her completely without honor. Captive, the angel Perceval waits for Ariane not only to finish her off - but to devour her very memories and mind. Surely her gruesome death will cause war between the houses - exactly as Ariane desires. But Ariane's plan may yet be opposed, for Perceval at once recognizes the young servant charged with her care.

Rien is the lost child: her sister. Soon they will escape, hoping to stop the impending war and save both their houses. But it is a perilous journey through the crumbling hulk of a dying ship, and they do not pass unnoticed. Because at the hub of their turning world waits Jacob Dust, all that remains of God, following the vapor wisp of the angel. And he knows they will meet very soon.

Originally published in 2007 as Dust.

Length: 370 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. This, coupled with a childhood tendency toward reading the dictionary, doomed her early to penury, intransigence and the writing of speculative fiction.

She is a recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a Locus Award, and has been nominated for the BSFA, Philip K. Dick and Lambda awards. She lives in southern New England with a presumptuous cat and her hobbies include archery, guitar and the indiscriminate slaughter of defenseless houseplants. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN : B00NLHJIYI
Publisher : Gateway (26 March 2015)
Language : English
File size : 815 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
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Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 370 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 300,026 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Rev. Andy

So-so fantasy sci-fi

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2019

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A nice idea for the setting but the characters are thin & unconvincing and the plot jumps from scene to scene in a very contrived manner. I got to the end but won’t read future instalments.

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Incredible. Awesome. Superlative.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2016

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Richly imagined, poetic science fiction that doesn't stop giving. A real masterwork that infuses space opera with the richness of myth. Best thing I've read in ages.

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Great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2019

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Riveting, imagine, in-depth and fleshed out female characters. Not your standard sci-fi fare, but extremely conversant with existing sci-fi. Recommend!

Eric Lawton

In spite of the angel on the cover, this is closer to science fiction

Reviewed in Canada on 19 February 2012

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This book is set in a vast generation ship which is stuck with failed systems close by a binary star system which is about to go nova. The angel on the cover is a bio-engineered human who is one of the Exalt who have nano-machine enhancements in their body.
I'm not a big fan of fantasy, as that genre too often is like playing tennis without a net - anything can happen in a fantasy - but the characters in this book are just as plausible descendants of the human race as many other regular science fiction books, and the book plays by its self-imposed rules.
The characters are not that deeply portrayed, so this is a fairly light book from that point of view, but does explore some of the interesting philosophical questions of personal identity and the nature of power in a hierarchical society, but in a light enough fashion that this is fairly good entertainment.
It also shows relationships that are a little more complex than is normal for science fiction, though again left me wishing it would go one step deeper.
I actually started with the last book in the series, not realising it was a series, and enjoyed it enough to begin at the beginning by buying Dust. I bought the middle one too but haven't read it yet; I found the last one, Grail to be better than this as the ethical dilemmas were more engaging. Still, I'm going to start on the middle one Chill tonight.

D. Elliott

very enjoyable with some original ideas

Reviewed in Germany on 3 February 2009

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My first book by Elizabeth Bear, so I was wondering what I had let myself in for. The cover blurb made it sound a bit cheesy but in fact the imagined "world" fits together very well and is original and interesting. Some great ideas, an intriguing story and a nicely ambiguous finale. I don't think this will be my last book by her.

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