Broken Third

English language

Published Dec. 23, 2019 by Independently Published.

ISBN:
978-1-0793-7187-1
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Out between stars and planets that left Earth behind many centuries ago, Ada Liu discovers a thriving but strangely archaic interstellar civilization - a Union of ancient colonies that have survived a war of apocalyptic proportions. Expecting to uncover the roots of Earth's downfall, she instead finds this society built by strange humans and familiar aliens is threatening, bewildering, and not at all what she had hoped.

Her abandonment of Isavel Valdéz haunts her as she travels further and further, but with an array of hunters breathing down her neck and no way to return, Ada needs to gather what little help she can and find refuge between the cold vacuum of space and the unfamiliar soils of new worlds.

She has one unsettling advantage: for better or worse, Ada is a strange daughter of a stranger Earth, and is perhaps the second most dangerous thing this Union …

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But writing it has been both fun and challenging in whole new ways for this series. In a lot of ways this is a fish-out-of-water story, though given that we're dealing with Ada Liu, it might be more accurate to describe this as shark-out-of-water. This makes for a lot of fun situations, and some gags that I hope are just cheesy enough.

This book is also where the series starts to deploy its end-game, both in terms of plot and in terms of the supernatural elements that will be brought to bear on the finale. And it's the book in the series that will lean most heavily on space opera as a genre, and I do love me some space opera. All of this - the familiar magic, the weird new magic, the starships and space battles, the silly jokes and gags - …