Space Unicorn Blues
By (Author) T. J. Berry
Watkins Media Limited
Angry Robot
21st November 2018
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
496
Width 130mm, Height 197mm
368g
A misfit crew race across the galaxy to prevent the genocide of magical creatures, in this unique science fiction debut. Having magical powers makes you less than human, a resource to be exploited. Half-unicorn Gary Cobalt is sick of slavery, captivity, and his horn being ground down to power faster-than-light travel. When he's finally free, all he wants is to run away in his ancestors' stone ship. Instead, Captain Jenny Perata steals the ship out from under him, so she can make an urgent delivery. But Jenny held him captive for a decade, and then Gary murdered her best friend... who was also the wife of her co-pilot, Cowboy Jim. What could possibly go right File Under- Science Fiction Rocks in Space | Stand Up to Reason | The Human Experiment | Last Unicorn
Pure wish fulfilment. That is assuming you wish to be a down-on-his-luck, half-unicorn space rogue, struggling to reclaim his starship and find his lost horn against an army of human oppressors who hold all the cards.
I never knew fairies and unicorns could be so dark. The book throws aside so many tropes and just does whatever the fuck it wants, inventing an entirely new world with new rules, and I am always in support of that.
"a whimsically grim romp"
T J BERRY has been a political blogger, bakery owner, and spent a disastrous two weeks working in a razor blade factory. She now writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror from Seattle with considerably fewer on the job injuries, and co-hosts the Warp Drives Podcast with her husband. Her fiction has appeared on Pseudopod and PodCastle. tjberrywrites.com twitter.com/tjaneberry Author hometown- Seattle, WA