Series: Book 3 in the Weird Space series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: EN-Alire, Lang:en
Summary
The growing threat of the dimension-invading Weird has
driven the Expansion government to outright paranoia. Mandatory
telepathic testing is introduced, and the colony Braun's
World—following reports of a new Weird portal
opening—is destroyed from orbit, at an unimaginable cost
in lives. Delia Walker, a senior analyst in the Expansion's
intelligence bureau and a holdout of the pragmatic old guard,
protests the oppressive new policies and is drummed out. Sure
there's a better way, she charters the decrepit freighter the
Baba Yaga and heads into the lawless "Satan's Reach," following
rumours of a world where humans and the Weird live peacefully
side by side. Hunted by the Bureau, Walker, her pilot Yershov, and
Failt—a Vetch child stowaway, fleeing slavery—will
uncover secrets about both the Weird and the Expansion; secrets
that could prevent catastrophic war...