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Escaping exodus / Nicky Drayden.

by Drayden, Nicky.

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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019.

Space colonies -- Fiction.

Sisters -- Fiction.

Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction.

Clans -- Fiction.

Leadership -- Fiction.

9780062867735 (trade pbk.)

322 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes excerpts from The prey of gods and Temper.

"[This] is a story of a young woman named Seske Kaleigh, heir to the command of a biological, city-size starship carved up from the insides of a spacefaring beast. Her clan has just now culled their latest ship and the workers are busy stripping down the bonework for building materials, rerouting the circulatory system for mass transit, and preparing the cavernous creature for the onslaught of the general populous still in stasis. It's all a part of the cycle her clan had instituted centuries ago - excavate the new beast, expand into its barely-living carcass, extinguish its resources over the course of a decade, then escape in a highly coordinated exodus back into stasis until they cull the next beast from the diminishing herd. And of course there wouldn't be much of a story if things didn't go terribly, terribly wrong." --Publisher.

Science fiction.

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