They run tests on her blood and her tissues and she waits, day after day. It’s like being in a prison yard for exercise, staggered hours so she doesn’t run into anyone. She thinks herself at the exact centre of the quarantine house courtyard. Isolation without progress is what bothers her, isolation without object. No, not isolation, because she’s used to that from training. The isolation is getting to her, no doubt. There will be no documentary about the life and times of Michelle Campion.
Going to space, escaping the solar system, surfing wormhole relativity, none of these is any kind of frontier any more. The desire for spaceflight has been omnipresent since she can remember, since she was three. Walking on gravel, boots crunching with each step, Shell doesn’t know if she is who she is because it’s what she wants or because it’s what her family expects of her. There is no need to know what no one will ask. "nventive, exciting and compulsively readable…This book is like the Tardis, larger inside than out, with a range of ideas, characters, and fascinating future settings making it probably the best science fiction novel of the year." - The Guardian
The setting is interstellar, but it feels as real, immediate, and lethal as today's headlines." -Alastair Reynolds
"Gripping and skillfully told, with an economy and freshness of approach that is all Tade Thompson''s own. Soon a sinister mystery unfolds aboard the gigantic vessel, one that will have repercussions for the entire system-from the scheming politicians of Lagos station, to the colony planet Bloodroot, to other far-flung systems, and indeed to Earth itself. But when first mate Michelle Campion rouses, she discovers some of the sleepers will never wake.Īnswering Campion’s distress call, investigator Rasheed Fin is tasked with finding out who is responsible for these deaths. The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a new home among the stars. Clarke Award winnerĪ tense and thrilling vision of humanity’s future in the chilling emptiness of space from rising giant in science fiction, Arthur C. “Simultaneously brutally grounded and wildly imaginative.” -Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C.
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