The Stars Are Legion

by Kameron Hurley

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.Here in the darkness, a war for control of the Legion has been waged for generations, 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 the band of cast-off followers she has gathered 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.

File Under: Science Fiction [ Armies in the Darkness | Over the Edge | Total Recall | She Is Legion ]

• ISBN10: 1481447939
• ISBN13: 9781481447935
• Publish Date: 7 February 2017 (first published 2 February 2017)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Gallery / Saga Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[empressbrooke]

The #1 word I can find to describe this book is "intriguing." It starts out with an amnestic narrator who wakes up in the middle of a war between two generation ships. At the 27% mark on my Kindle, everything that I was expecting got thrown out the window and I was like, "Huh, I wonder where this is going now." And this was only the first of several times where I found myself in a completely unexpected place and had absolutely no idea what was coming next. It's just as dark and gritty as Hurley's God's War trilogy, but I found this one much more compelling and tough to put down.