Description
An ex-cop who cannot die. A moon full of settlers who cannot thrive.
Mahina’s terraformers built a high-tech urban paradise. Then Earth flooded the colony with desperate refugees, cop Sass Collier among them.
The settlers who arrived with Sass died decades ago. Outside the citadel, their descendants die weak and young.
Sass fought a rebellion against the city once. She won concessions to give the settlers a chance at health. She paid with 20 years in prison.
Now she’s out, a reformed character. She assembles an oddball crew doing odd jobs. She intends to mind her own business – how to make a profit on the skyship Thrive.
But her fellow settlers are still failing.
While her business model careens toward circus acts, Sass dares to defy the city again, to solve Mahina’s failure to thrive.
Pick up Skyship Thrive because you love upbeat character-driven SF with fun technology. Suggested for fans of Firefly, Lindsay Buroker’s Star Kingdom, or Nathan Lowell’s Golden Age of the Solar Clipper books.
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Sample
Jerry Harkey –
A long but very well done imagining of a future world in which humans have fled earth to colonize distant planets. Each with a different but very difficult climate/environment, and with little to no communication between them. Sass is an ex-cop, ex-rebel, ex-convict with a big heart and a small bank account. On her isolated world of Mahina, she manages to buy a Skyship. With her partner and some old and new friends, she endeavors to right some well-established societal wrongs. This adventure is their story, and it’s a good one.