Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather

Heroic Sacrifice: The Reverend Mother stays on the ship to distract the Central Governance.Food Porn: The description of the colonists' meal on Phoyongsa III.Fighting from the Inside: The infected colonists.She breaks it in the finale to get the Cheng I Sao past the Central Governance. Elective Mute: The Reverend Mother has taken a vow of silence.Death Seeker: The Reverend Mother, for years after the war.Crapsack World: Post-war Earth, by all accounts.Cool Starship: ''Our Lady of Impossible Constellations''.The 'vaccinations' that the colonists mention to the nuns.Foreshadowing: The Reverend Mother, it turns out, has a very good reason for not speaking.Butch Lesbian: Vauca, Sister Gemma's lover.Big Damn Heroes: The nuns go back to save the colonists at the end.The Atoner: The Reverend Mother, for her crimes during the war.And I Must Scream: The ringeye victims.Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: They are in space, after all.Advert-Overloaded Future: Sister Faustina opens a message from a colony, only to be bombarded with advertisements about food, ship repair and a moon base.

It features a group of nuns travelling through space who eventually discover a conspiracy. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on Apby george.Sisters of the Vast Black is a 2019 sci-fi novella by Lina Rather. If you’re in the mood for some off-beat SF, Lina Rather’s nuns will surprise you! GRADE: B (for both) This blend of politics, violence, betrayal, and religion produces a couple of engaging space operas. Two women show up to “join” their Order, but both women come with secrets. The nuns are on the run from Old Earth’s Central Governance. Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (2022) picks up where Sisters of the Vast Black left off. I also liked Sister Gemma who has to make a life-changing decision.

My favorite nun is Sister Faustina–maybe the most intelligent sister who solves the puzzles threatening her Order. Their mission of mercy turns into something much more sinister.

The nuns are unaware of the surprises that lurk aboard their starship. Lina Rather covers a lot of ground in 159 pages with Sisters of the Vast Black (2019). Forty years after a devastating war between Old Earth’s Central Governance and its space colonies, the sisters of The Order of Saint Rita embark on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard a living starship called Our Lady of Impossible Constellations.

Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather