Agent: Thao Le, Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Skrutskie’s examination of what defines humanity, family, and free will makes this an engaging, satisfying story. Skrutskie’s ( The Edge of the Abyss) tale is packed with diverse characters: Aisha identifies as aromantic and asexual, and adheres to a Muslim-like faith, while her squadmate Woojin Lih is pansexual other characters are coded as Asian or Indian, and much of the story’s conflict stems from class-based tension. As they work to protect the fleet as it searches for a habitable planet, they’re forced to make consequential choices that could save or doom everyone. Mentally linked with the rest of their new squad, the two girls become reluctant allies, even friends. Seventeen-year-old Aisha Un-Haad undergoes the change to provide for her brother, who dwells in one of the fleet’s most impoverished lower-class ships 18-year-old Key Tanaka comes from their society’s highest tier but has no memory of why she underwent the brutal process. in Performing and Media Arts from Cornell University, where she studied an outrageous and demanding combination of film, computer science, and game design. In this spacefaring adventure, mankind’s fate rests in the hands of people who’ve traded their humanity for cybernetic enhancements to become Scela-cyborg soldiers who serve the colonization fleet housing Earth’s refugees. She was born in Massachusetts, raised in Virginia, and forged in the mountains above Boulder, Colorado.
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