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Tim Pratt’s Axiom trilogy (
The Wrong Stars,
The Dreaming Stars, and
The Forbidden Stars) is a trio of excellent, modern, space-opera pulp adventures, with a compelling cast and a satisfying amount of solving problems by blowing them up. I’m gutted that there don’t seem to be any plans for more novel-length works in this setting – and at the same time delighted by the novellas collected in
The Alien Stars and Other Novellas, which form a coda of sorts to the trilogy.
The Alien Stars collects three stories: “The Augmented Stars”, “The Artificial Stars”, and the titular “The Alien Stars”. Each involves or focuses on a different character from the original trilogy, and each is told with a slightly different style – though with equal amounts of panache.
Last year, Tim Pratt launched a Kickstarter for a new book, one set in the same world as his Axiom (
The Wrong Stars, The Dreaming Stars, and
The Forbidden Stars) trilogy:
The project was ultimately successful, and according to The Bookseller, it was enough to attract the attention of Angry Robot’s Commissioning Editor, Eleanor Teasdale, who picked up the book for a release later this year.
Pratt’s space opera trilogy (also published by Angry Robot) is set in the distant future, in which the crew of a salvage starship called
White Raven come across a derelict ship with a lone survivor, who tells them that she came into contact with aliens. Those aliens are from an ancient civilization and now that they’ve been awoken, they’re bent on exterminating humanity.