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The Light Years
A long-lost battleship and an arranged marriage may hold the key to faster-than-light travel and humanity’s future in R.W.W. Greene’s debut The Light Years
“The toll difficult moral choices take on families is the core conflict of this clever far-future debut from Greene… Sophisticated worldbuilding and diverse, emotionally-resonant characters make Greene an author to watch.”
– Publishers Weekly
File Under: Science Fiction[ E=mc2 | Happy wife, Happy life | Marital Bliss | Light Years Away ]
Hisako Saski was born with her life already mapped out. In exchange for an education, better housing for her family, and a boost out of poverty, she’s been contracted into an arranged marriage to Adem Sadiq, a maintenance engineer and amateur musician who works and lives aboard his family’s sub-light freighter, the Hajj.
Hisako is not happy with the deal. The arcane branch of physics it requires her to study broke off a thousand years before, and she is not keen on the idea of giving up everything she knows to marry a stranger and move onto an aging spaceship.
Onboard the Hajj, Hisako soon learns her dilemmas are overshadowed by the discovery of ancient secrets, a derelict warship, and a chance at giving the survivors of Earth a fresh start.
Release Date | 2020-02-11 |
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Ebook | 11th February 2020 | 9780857668370 | epub & mobi | £6.99/$8.99/$10.99 |
US Print | 11th February 2020 | 9780857668363 | Trade Paperback | $12.99/$15.99 |
UK Print | 11th February 2020 | 9780857668363 | Paperback | £9.99 |
Goodreads URL | Read & Review |
– Kirkus Reviews
– Publishers Weekly
– SFX Magazine
– E. C. Ambrose, author of The Dark Apostle series
– James Patrick Kelly, winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards.
– Kelly Stone Gamble, USA Today best-selling author of They Call Me Crazy
R.W.W. Greene is a New Hampshire USA writer with an MA in Fine Arts, which he exorcises in dive bars and coffee shops. He is a frequent panelist at the Boskone Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention in Boston, and his work has been in Stupefying Stories, Daily Science Fiction, New Myths, and Jersey Devil Press, among others. Greene is a past board member of the New Hampshire Writers’ Project. He keeps bees, collects typewriters, and lives with writer/artist spouse Brenda and two cats.
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