The World Gives Way by Marissa Levien is $2.99 on
Amazon.com
This is in
Amal El-Mohtar's list of best SF/F novels of 2021 for the New York Times.
Review. [Warning: Paywalls]
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A staggering, action-packed marvel set on a doomed generation ship the size of Switzerland. There’s a crack in the hull, widening, irreparable and kept secret; Myrra Dal, an indentured nanny, finds this out when her employers kill themselves, and does the only thing that makes sense to her: She takes the baby and runs.
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Book description:
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In a near-future world on the brink of collapse, a young woman born into servitude must seize her own freedom
In fifty years, Myrra will be free.
Until then, she's a contract worker. Ever since she was five, her life and labor have belonged to the highest bidder on her contract—butchers, laundries, and now the powerful, secretive Carlyles.
But when one night finds the Carlyles dead, Myrra is suddenly free a lot sooner than she anticipated—and at a cost she never could have imagined. Burdened with the Carlyles' orphaned daughter and the terrible secret they died to escape, she runs. With time running out, Myrra must come face to face with the truth about her world—and embrace what's left before it's too late.
A portrait of a world in freefall, and the fierce drive to live even at the end of it all.
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