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Persephone Station

Pages
512
Published
2021
Language
English

Synopsis

Persephone Station is a planet the United Republic of Worlds has mostly ignored. The Serrao-Orlov Corporation has not. It believes the planet holds secrets worth taking, and it intends to take them.

In the corporate town of West Brynner, Rosie runs Monk's Bar. The front bar serves would-be criminals and wealthy tourists from Earth. The back bar has a narrower clientele: members of an exclusive criminal class, and the people who want to hire them.

Angel is a former marine who leads a loose band of outlaws with a code. Some are assassins who have gone astray, others are mercenaries past their best, and all of them lean toward doing the honorable thing. Rosie asks Angel to take a job.

The job uncovers something that will reach across the whole of Persephone. It sets Angel and her squad against an army, and the odds are poor. They want the fight with Serrao-Orlov anyway. Angel holds that honor, once lost, cannot be recovered, and she is determined to try regardless. This is science fiction with a crew of misfits, a corporate antagonist and a frontier-world setting.

How it reads

Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (2)
ViolenceGun Violence