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A review by docpacey
Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi
3.0
I found this romance/space-opera in my search for 'other voices' in fiction. Koyanagi represents several marginalized groups, and uses that perspective to create a world that isn't much like the run-of-the-mill male dominated multiverse of most sci-fi.
Ascension is a light, quick read, a bit heavy on flowery prose and romance, but not at the expense of some decent sci-fi.
Alana Quick stows aboard a space cargo ship because she's ill and wants an adventure before her life has been wasted. She's a mechanic, a sky-surgeon, and the ship she boards has called to her. The crew is a rag-tag bunch of marginalized misfits, with more problems than solutions, but the whole ends up being greater than the sum of its parts and the story is well paced and nicely told.
I grew up on sci-fi like this in the 70's and Ascension has a bit of a nostalgic feel of those free-love, psychedelic days. Worth the read.
Ascension is a light, quick read, a bit heavy on flowery prose and romance, but not at the expense of some decent sci-fi.
Alana Quick stows aboard a space cargo ship because she's ill and wants an adventure before her life has been wasted. She's a mechanic, a sky-surgeon, and the ship she boards has called to her. The crew is a rag-tag bunch of marginalized misfits, with more problems than solutions, but the whole ends up being greater than the sum of its parts and the story is well paced and nicely told.
I grew up on sci-fi like this in the 70's and Ascension has a bit of a nostalgic feel of those free-love, psychedelic days. Worth the read.