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Under Fortunate Stars

Ren Hutchings

Start date: March 1, 2023

Finish date: March 31, 2023

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UFS: Casting? Seems like a TV show or movie
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Mar 24, 2023 Beth rated it really liked it

Shelves: sf, sword-and-laser

Great pick -- I had never heard of this book and I enjoyed it. I liked it both as a puzzle and a character thing, seeing how all the backstories added up. I liked how the timeline for the Jonah people kept jumping back and forth, and how that was used less for the Galleon people. I liked how emotionally grounded the people were (often unstably), and I even liked that Leeg kept smoking. I guessed some stuff that was coming but most of the twists were unexpected or at least executed in unexpected ...more

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Mar 25, 2023 Tensy (bookdoyen) rated it liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

A fun SF time travel story. Great characters and a plot, that if you are willing to suspend belief at the number of coincidences (thus the title, Fortunate Stars), is fast paced and full of surprises to the end. Most of the story takes place in a Zey Corp research vessel hosting an alien ambassador that finds itself suddenly sharing a subspace rift anomaly with the historic 150 year old Jonah, a dilapidated freighter and its rag tag crew. I enjoyed the alternating chapters giving the backstory t ...more

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Jan 10, 2022 Barondestructo rated it liked it

As a huge fan of all things time travel, from chronal loops to temporal distortions, I loved the set-up here. It opens the door to an inventive sci-fi narrative that, while a lot of fun, also explores headier themes related to how perspectives shape history and the human flaws and frailties that reside within the heroes we worship. The author does a nice job of introducing a fascinating future world, its backstory and politics, while also offering up a cast of intriguing, mostly relatable charac ...more

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Sep 19, 2023 Becky rated it really liked it

This was well paced and enjoyable, but had a few strange choices. It was particularly fun to see how history had remembered characters versus how they were presented when viewed in the present. Even though the plot demanded that certain things were kind of obviously pre-ordained, it still managed to keep me guessing.

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