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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.
Tim Pratt’s last trilogy from Angry Robot, the Axiom (
The Wrong Stars,
The Dreaming Stars, and
The Forbidden Stars), was precisely the kind of space opera romp guaranteed to delight me. Fast paced, and with a rag-tag crew of heroes and a selection of batshit weird dangers, it drove an appealing course through a galaxy not so very far away.
With
Doors of Sleep, Pratt opens a new series, and although it’s far from space opera, its rollicking pace and fiercely inventive worldbuilding makes it every bit as appealing.
Zaxony Dyad Euphony Delatree is very far from home. Every time he falls asleep, he wakes up in another universe, and has done so for approximately the last three years. He’s fallen into over a thousand worlds, and then fallen out of them just as quickly. Along the way, he’s had a handful of companions – for he can take people with him, if he falls asleep touching them – but all of them have left him, or been left behind. One of them, a man known a