Breath of Oblivion, by Maurice Broaddus

 

Review copy provided by the publisher. Also I know the author from cons and online and stuff.

This is the second volume in its series, following Sweep of Stars and preceding...something big, given the ending. Luckily for you the first one is still in print, because this book dives right in and never quits, and there's a lot of momentum left from the first one, that you will miss out on if you don't read it.

What this is: African diaspora-tinged space opera. We got your clash of cultures in space, we got your people doing unwise things in the name of science, we got your massive cast with different goals but all striving against the vacuum, we got your family relationships splattering their consequences over the whole galaxy, you want it in a space opera, we got it right here. With a substantially Black cast.

Doesn't that sound nice? doesn't that sound like the sort of thing you could laugh and flinch and gasp along with right about now? It comes out Tuesday, so if you start now, you can get there before you know it.