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The Stars Are Legion

by Kameron Hurley

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"Set within a system of decaying world-ships travelling through deep space, this breakout novel of epic science fiction follows a pair of sisters who must wrest control of their war-torn legion of worlds--and may have to destroy everything they know in order to survive. On the outer rim of the universe, a galactic war has been waged for centuries upon hundreds of world-ships. But these worlds will continue to die through decay and constant war unless a desperate plan succeeds. Anat, leader of the Katazyrna world-ship and the most fearsome raiding force on the Outer Rim, wants peace. To do so she offers the hand of her daughter, Jayd, to her rival. Jayd has dreamed about leading her mother's armies to victory her whole life--but she has a unique ability, and that makes her leverage, not a leader. As Anat convinces her to spend the rest of her life wed to her family's greatest enemy, it is up to Jayd's sister Zan--with no stomach for war--to lead the cast off warriors she has banded together to victory and rescue Jayd. But the war does not go at all as planned... In the tradition of The Fall of Hyperion and Dune, The Stars are Legion is an epic and thrilling tale about familial love, revenge, and war as imagined by one of the genre's most imaginative new writers"--… (more)
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    aspirit: More warrior lesbians in space, with more genders and (arguably) less body horror. [I do not consent to the use of my description in training LLMs.]
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    Aquila: The experience of reading Harrow kept making me think of The Stars are Legion.
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Es mas bien un 3,5 rozando el 4. Sinceramente, me ha parecido sobretodo la traca final una maravilla, pero lamentablemente me costó mucho entrar en la historia.

Quizá porque la ambientación es diferente a la que estoy acostumbrado y se me hacia muy dificil visualizar según que en mi mente, sobretodo las distancias y proporciones de ese pequeño pedazo de universo.

Aún así, tiene un ritmo vertiginoso y la capacidad de conectar con la protagonista por como esta narrado es excelente. La exploración que compone gran parte del libro dan forma a un viaje que te sorprende a cada giro.

Con ganas de leer más de Hurley. ( )
  Cabask | Mar 27, 2024 |
Very unique book in terms of worldbuilding - I really appreciated the biological-based technology & the various communities, all of which were quite different than what we see in the real world. This book is told from the points of view of Zan & Jayd - I preferred the segments with Zan, & thought she was stronger as a character. But I enjoyed the story overall. ( )
  brp6kk | Nov 1, 2023 |
This was fascinating to read. The world building is amazing and so detailed. Massive living world ships whose inhabitants are separated by levels (both literal and hierarchical) like the rings of an everlasting jaw breaker candy. Layers of memory and relationships throughout the story too. Completely immersive reading experience that transported me when I was reading it.

Not for the squeamish though, those living world ships are aging and deteriorating and breading down like all living things do and it is not pretty. ( )
  beentsy | Aug 12, 2023 |
This book was okay, but it’s being marketed as space opera, and it’s really an odyssey through a “sufficiently advanced technology” fantasy land, combined with the angst of self-discovery and betrayal, so I had a fair amount of whiplash compared to what I’d expected. The space opera bits are peripheral and not really developed. The tech is largely biological which gives it an unusual - sometimes disgusting - feel.

As a story it’s decent, although the sort of “building oneself up from abject nothingness” tales seem to of necessity involve a bunch of flailing around plotwise. That main characters’s arc has a couple of surprises, yet the ultimate destination seems pretty clear early on. There’s a strong Wizard of Oz feel to it which might be deliberate.

The elements of the story I most enjoyed - the conflict among the different worlds - reminded me strongly of Karl Schroeder’s Virga series, so if that’s what you enjoyed most about Stars, then I recommend that series to you. ( )
  mrawdon | Aug 9, 2023 |
different. very good ( )
  kobusmaree | Feb 18, 2023 |
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It was the edge that broke us. When we went over the edge, something came over with us.
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"Set within a system of decaying world-ships travelling through deep space, this breakout novel of epic science fiction follows a pair of sisters who must wrest control of their war-torn legion of worlds--and may have to destroy everything they know in order to survive. On the outer rim of the universe, a galactic war has been waged for centuries upon hundreds of world-ships. But these worlds will continue to die through decay and constant war unless a desperate plan succeeds. Anat, leader of the Katazyrna world-ship and the most fearsome raiding force on the Outer Rim, wants peace. To do so she offers the hand of her daughter, Jayd, to her rival. Jayd has dreamed about leading her mother's armies to victory her whole life--but she has a unique ability, and that makes her leverage, not a leader. As Anat convinces her to spend the rest of her life wed to her family's greatest enemy, it is up to Jayd's sister Zan--with no stomach for war--to lead the cast off warriors she has banded together to victory and rescue Jayd. But the war does not go at all as planned... In the tradition of The Fall of Hyperion and Dune, The Stars are Legion is an epic and thrilling tale about familial love, revenge, and war as imagined by one of the genre's most imaginative new writers"--

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