Rachel Neumeier’s No Foreign Sky
I think this is Neumeier’s first sci-fi novel, and I really liked it! One of the things she does really well is the meeting of two disparate cultures, and that is definitely at the forefront here. To back up, this is about a far far future where an abandoned human colony merged with a nearby alien civilization (made up of boar-centaur people) to form a new society. Out story begins with a ship from that society fighting a losing battle with some vicious enemy aliens, when they’re rescued by an unknown ship—a ship full of other humans (more directly tied to Earth and its ways). Soon they have to form an alliance to fight the bad guys. I am super here for outer space politics and diplomacy—this maybe leaned more on the space battle side of things, I would have preferred more of the talking, but that’s just me. I did love all the characters here and hope Neumeier writes more in this world. A/A-.
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