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She's all alone aboard a spaceship bound for a new life. Or is she? Aboard the interstellar ship Olorun, now drifting awry and silent, a girl named Syn has awoken. Alone on a ship littered with the decaying bodies of the dead crew, Syn has scraped together a thin life with only a cranky AI bot named Blip and a fiercely loyal tiger named Eku for companionship. Unbeknownst to Syn, she is not the only one to have awoken aboard Olorun. Trapped in a much darker, and less well-provisioned part of the ship, tormented over the years as they’ve struggled just to exist, others have now discovered Syn’s idyllic world and will do anything to make her home theirs.
420 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 5, 2019
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J. Daniel Batt
22 books5 followersJ. Daniel Batt is a writer, teacher, designer, artist, creator of communities, listener, and explorer.
He serves as Creative and Editorial manager for 100 Year Starship. Jason creates visual engagement for 100 Year Starship programs and activities. He is also the managing editor of the 100YSS Symposium Proceedings.
He serves on the Advisory Board for the Lifeboat Foundation with their Religious/Spirituality Board and the Space Settlement Board. He has previously served on the Sacramento Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Board. He was a panel speaker at the 2011 DARPA / NASA 100 Year Starship Symposium, a speaker at the 2012, 2013, and 2014 100 Year Starship Symposia, and host for the Science Fiction Stories Night at the 2013 and 2014 Symposia.
J. Daniel Batt is a writer that has penned the children’s fantasy book Keaghan in the Tales of Dreamside and the designer of many more, including The Human Race to the Future published by the Lifeboat Foundation. He served as a judge for the Lifeboat to the Stars award for science fiction literature, which was presented at the Campbell Conference in June 2013. His fiction has appeared in Bastion Science Fiction Magazine, Bewildering Stories, and in the upcoming Genius Loci anthology.
He serves as Creative and Editorial manager for 100 Year Starship. Jason creates visual engagement for 100 Year Starship programs and activities. He is also the managing editor of the 100YSS Symposium Proceedings.
He serves on the Advisory Board for the Lifeboat Foundation with their Religious/Spirituality Board and the Space Settlement Board. He has previously served on the Sacramento Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Board. He was a panel speaker at the 2011 DARPA / NASA 100 Year Starship Symposium, a speaker at the 2012, 2013, and 2014 100 Year Starship Symposia, and host for the Science Fiction Stories Night at the 2013 and 2014 Symposia.
J. Daniel Batt is a writer that has penned the children’s fantasy book Keaghan in the Tales of Dreamside and the designer of many more, including The Human Race to the Future published by the Lifeboat Foundation. He served as a judge for the Lifeboat to the Stars award for science fiction literature, which was presented at the Campbell Conference in June 2013. His fiction has appeared in Bastion Science Fiction Magazine, Bewildering Stories, and in the upcoming Genius Loci anthology.
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December 12, 2020
A fun and wild space epic with huge heart and huge imagination. The twists and turns are truly page turning and it’s just a good ol’ time.
March 24, 2021
A science fiction novel with a young protagonist but not "YA" (young adult).
Syn was born/decanted alone, raised by a machine named Blip, on an empty colony ship crossing the vastness of space. Signs of the colonists deaths, both violent and quiet, can be seen throughout the silent, unchanging grounds. Then one day something changes - a bot, just like Blip, enters their world - dead ... but newly dead. Where did it come from? Chasing down the origin makes Syn question everything, including herself.
This well structured science fiction keeps moving, creating both realism and mythology of a failed colony ship traveling between the stars. It is beautiful and layered. Characters develop and the ending satisfies.
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Syn was born/decanted alone, raised by a machine named Blip, on an empty colony ship crossing the vastness of space. Signs of the colonists deaths, both violent and quiet, can be seen throughout the silent, unchanging grounds. Then one day something changes - a bot, just like Blip, enters their world - dead ... but newly dead. Where did it come from? Chasing down the origin makes Syn question everything, including herself.
This well structured science fiction keeps moving, creating both realism and mythology of a failed colony ship traveling between the stars. It is beautiful and layered. Characters develop and the ending satisfies.
Read through Kindle Unlimited.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews