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Station Eternity
by Mur Lafferty
Mallory attracts murders. She solves them but the authorities don’t trust her and mostly think she is involved in some way. Even when it is proven she just sees clues they missed the authorities refuse to allow her to become a police officer or even a private investigator. After each murder she moves on as the people around her start to avoid her and fear her presence. Since First Contact has opened up relations, of a sort, with a variety of aliens, Mallory requests and is granted asylum on the sentient space station Eternity. Xan Morgan is also on Eternity having been kidnapped by some joy-riding aliens. Even if he wanted to return to earth there is the matter of him being suspected of murder as well having classified information the military for which they will kill him to prevent it from becoming known. So Xan and Mallory are peacefully two of three humans on board until a shuttle bearing more humans to visit or live on the space station is announced. Before they can decide what to do - stay or run - the shuttle is partially destroyed and the sentient station goes into an angry fit over the death of its symbiote, Ren, that is slowing destroying it piece by piece. When the survivors from the shuttle are recovered it turns out most of them have a past link to either Xan or Mallory. The murder of Ren is just the beginning of the most intricate murder Mallory has ever tried to solve.
This is a murder mystery and a space romp rolled in to one. We learn that aliens have been popping in to visit earth for years, that most abductions of humans are the equivalent of drunk college kids deciding to take home that cute stray dog from Rocky Point and that there are dozens of different alien races. Mallory’s closet non-human friend is Stephanie, a Gneiss rock creature about eight-feet-tall, other aliens are blue flying insects, the chameleon-like Phantasmagore and, of course, the sentient space station Eternity and her daughter the sentient shuttle Infinity. Standout alien characters are Stephanie and her cousin Tina if you can imagine a rock creature with the personality of a valley girl.
This was an enjoyable read, I adore the characters and want to see more of them. Luckily book two, Chaos Terminal, is due out in November. Highly recommended
This is a murder mystery and a space romp rolled in to one. We learn that aliens have been popping in to visit earth for years, that most abductions of humans are the equivalent of drunk college kids deciding to take home that cute stray dog from Rocky Point and that there are dozens of different alien races. Mallory’s closet non-human friend is Stephanie, a Gneiss rock creature about eight-feet-tall, other aliens are blue flying insects, the chameleon-like Phantasmagore and, of course, the sentient space station Eternity and her daughter the sentient shuttle Infinity. Standout alien characters are Stephanie and her cousin Tina if you can imagine a rock creature with the personality of a valley girl.
This was an enjoyable read, I adore the characters and want to see more of them. Luckily book two, Chaos Terminal, is due out in November. Highly recommended