Lina Rather
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"Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, monstrosity, and the rending of the world, for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Death of Jane Lawrence. "An entrancing and transformative queer tale of cosmic horror."-Caitlin Starling "A blood sacrifice of a novel."-Meg Elison In 17th-century London, unnatural babies are being born, with eyes made for the dark and webbed digits suited to the sea. Sarah...
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"Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard Our Lady of Impossible Constellations, a living, breathing ship which seems determined to develop a will of its own. When the order receives a distress call from a newly-formed colony, the sisters discover that the bodies...
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Muchos años atrás, la Vieja Tierra comenzó a enviar misiones religiosas para colonizar todos los confines del espacio. Así nació la congregación de monjas de la Orden de Santa Rita, que a bordo de Nuestra Señora de las Constelaciones Imposibles, una nave viviente, surca la oscuridad de la galaxia ofreciendo su misericordia y su fe. Cuando la orden recibe una llamada de auxilio desde una colonia desconocida, las monjas descubren que las almas...
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The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, the follow-up to Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black, winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society Award. “We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames.” Not long ago, Earth’s colonies and space stations threw off the yoke of planet Earth’s tyrannical rule. Decades later, trouble is brewing in the...