Among hard sf writers, Linda Nagata is a pearl, able to render her complex landscapes in moving, quick-paced stories that linger in the mind." -Gregory BenfordĪboard Null Boundary, a giant starship thousands of years old, four survivors of an ancient alien war are making a desperate journey: Lot, son of a fiery prophet and carrier of an insidious virus that spreads a cult-like religious mania among those it infects Urban, Lot's boyhood friend from the city of Silk, and a man in search of challenge and adventure Clemantine, cast adrift when her world was destroyed and yearning for revenge and Nikko, sometimes a living man, but always, the ship's disembodied mind.
"VAST lives up to its name - big, important, yet written to a human scale so the perspectives of science emerge all the more strongly.
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