Some Desperate Glory

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands. Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she’s known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.

I’ve long thought that the military science fiction genre that I’m so deeply in love with has an issue with diversity in it’s author lineup, with 10/10 of the authors that I’ve read in that space being men, so starting back about 10 years ago I thought I’d just pick up the next book written by someone other than a dude, and boy howdy and I here to tell you that Emily Tesh absolutely hit it out of the park with this one. The basic premise is a familiar one, there was a war, one side lost, but not everyone on the losing side has accepted their fate and are struggling to find a victory in their defeat. Nearly exactly at the 50% mark of the book though the story gets turned from a familiar post-apocalyptic military science fiction space adventure into something even more in vogue in recent movie successes. I won’t get into the gory details, but I’m happy with this implementation of the story elements and can happily recommend it to anyone that’s been a fan of the military scifi stories by John Scalzi or Marko Kloos.

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