Wednesday, August 21st, 2024

2024/117: Countess — Suzan Palumbo
Space colonization had not been the great equalizer the capitalist billionaires had advertised. When their homes vanished due to the rising seas, the people of the Antillean islands found no sanctuary from any nation on Terra. With nowhere to go, they signed contracts that put them back in bondage, to work jobs on the far-flung mining and agricultural planets. [loc. 204]

This novella, described by the publisher as 'a queer Caribbean anti-colonial Count of Monte Cristo set in space', snagged my interest.Read more... )

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