The Diamond Deep
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
What if a woman as strong and as complex as Eva Perón began her life as a robot repair assistant threatened by a powerful peacekeeping force that wants to take all she has from her? The discovery ship, Creative Fire, is on its way home from a multi-generational journey. But home is nothing like the crew expected. They have been gone for generations, and the system they return to is home to technologies and riches beyond their wildest dreams. But they are immediately oppressed and relegated to the lowest status imaginable, barely able to interact with the technologies and people of the star station where they dock, the Diamond Deep. Ruby Martin and her partner, Joel North, must find a way to learn what they need to know and to become more than they have ever been if they are to find a way to save their people. From the Trade Paperback edition.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this unappealing second half of a space opera duology (after The Creative Fire) based loosely on the life of Evita Per n, Cooper bites off far more than she can chew, muddling her original saga of overcoming oppression with a first-contact narrative that falls completely flat. The bickering factions on the damaged generation ship Creative Fire have reached a compromise. There are still pockets of resistance, especially among the laboring "reds," but thanks to Ruby Martin's selfless leadership and the aid of the ship's AI, the ship is integrated and its inhabitants are working as a cohesive group. Reaching their home system in a functioning ship turns out to be a simple task, though, compared with trying to understand the differences that generations apart have created between the ship's inhabitants and those on their originating planet of Adiamo. Stilted language, a one-track plot, and Ruby's distinct lack of Evita's talent for leadership and politics make this limp novel one to miss.
