To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
- Published2020
- Read in 2022
- Genre Sci-fi/fantasy
Synopsis
A crew goes to inspect a new planet for colonization, a small crew. Our protagonist is a woman, and she discovers an old alien ship ( humanity hasn't encountered aliens yet ) and somehow falls. She wakes up back on her ship, and as she wakes up she kills all the crew because of spikes coming from her body. She has an alien skin on her that reacts to her. An army ship takes her and it gets attacked by aliens which seems to be hunting for the skin.
A big war happens and she escapes, joining another ship with a crew of misfits. She learns that there is a third alien race, hunting down both the first aliens ( kinda like land-octopi aliens ) and humans - we later on learns it's a composite human/octopi/skins. The skin starts talking to the protagonists through dreams and they learn that there is a faction of octopi aliens that do not want war. The skin tells the hero about a super powerful weapon, they try to reach it, but the weapon is old and doesn't work, but they manage to kill the leaders of the Octopi. And there ends the book.
A big war happens and she escapes, joining another ship with a crew of misfits. She learns that there is a third alien race, hunting down both the first aliens ( kinda like land-octopi aliens ) and humans - we later on learns it's a composite human/octopi/skins. The skin starts talking to the protagonists through dreams and they learn that there is a faction of octopi aliens that do not want war. The skin tells the hero about a super powerful weapon, they try to reach it, but the weapon is old and doesn't work, but they manage to kill the leaders of the Octopi. And there ends the book.
My take
It's slightly entertaining, but the ideas in the book are not amazing