Alien Stars News Today

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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 Star...

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...