The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley
The Stars Are Legion, Kameron Hurley
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The Stars Are Legion

Author: Kameron Hurley

Narrator: Nicole Poole, Teri Schnaubelt

Unabridged: 11 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/31/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is traveling in the seams between the stars. For generations, a war for control of the Legion has been waged, with no clear resolution. As worlds continue to die, a desperate plan is put into motion.

Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who say they are her family. She is told she is their salvation—the only person capable of boarding the Mokshi, a world-ship with the power to leave the Legion. But Zan's new family is not the only one desperate to gain control of the prized ship. Zan finds that she must choose sides in a genocidal campaign that will take her from the edges of the Legion's gravity well to the very belly of the world.

Zan will soon learn that she carries the seeds of the Legion's destruction—and its possible salvation. But can she and her ragtag band of followers survive the horrors of the Legion and its people long enough to deliver it?

In the tradition of The Fall of Hyperion and Dune, The Stars Are Legion is an epic and thrilling tale about tragic love, revenge, and war as imagined by one of the genre's most celebrated new writers.

About Kameron Hurley

Kameron Hurley is the author of The Stars are Legion, The Light Brigade, and the award-winning essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution, as well as the God's War Trilogy and the Worldbreaker Saga. Hurley has won the Hugo Award, Kitschy Award, BSFA Award, and Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer. She was also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Award, and the Gemmell Morningstar Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Popular Science Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, and many anthologies. Hurley has also written for the Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, the Village Voice, Bitch Magazine, and Locus.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elle on January 14, 2021

I fear her, yes, but I’ve never been loyal. 4 1/2 stars, rounded up because I know for a fact this will stay with me. This story follows the Katazyrna family and the Bhavajas, trying to conquer the Mokshi, a world-ship with the power to take their family away from the Legion, a ship syste......more

Goodreads review by Philip on January 12, 2020

2ish stars. Kameron Hurley is full of ideas. Some of them obviously come from a dark, twisted, disturbing place. Some nasty stuff going on here. I mean cool, creative, crazy stuff... but also oozy, squishy, bloody, nasty blech, blech. The world-building is definitely the top selling point for this b......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on May 22, 2017

Memory, bio-punk, world-building extravaganza, betrayal, adventure, horror. There's so much to love in this book. It's full to the brim with fantastic living "world/ships" and the special parasites that are living aboard them. (Us, or some kind of alien that's near enough us that makes no odds.) I ori......more

Goodreads review by Xabi1990 on January 31, 2023

Ritmo narrativo escaso, personajes sin carisma, space opera (como dice el libro que se supone es) inexistente (ni multiples razas ni ná), ambientación orgánica sin ningún tipo de worldbuilding (eso funciona porque funciona. Y ya.) y, lo peor, continuas escenas oscuras y con ambientación desagradable......more

Goodreads review by Althea on April 26, 2017

If you know Kameron Hurley's work, you know you're going to get an intensely visceral experience, with plenty of slime. 'The Stars are Legion' delivers as expected. The whole book is filled with yucky-but-imaginative and fascinating details, and it's worth reading just for that. However, I did have......more