Dust (Jacob’s Ladder 1) – Elizabeth Bear Free Audiobook

Written by Elizabeth Bear
Read by Alma Cuervo
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Rien, a handmaid in a feudal society, must care for the prisoner Ser Percevala mutilated enemy who Rien discovers is her half-sister by an absent scion of the ruling family.

Their quest for a safer home tangles with their society’s own quest for safety, as the descendents of an artificial intelligence and the genetically engineered crew battle for control to save the ship from an impending supernova.

Standard plot devices litter the familiar landscape: tarot, pseudo-angels, named swords with powers, and politics as a family quarrel. But Campbell Award winning author Bear uses them beautifully to turn up the pressure on her characters, who respond by making hard choices. And, as she did in Carnival and Hammered, Bear breaks sexual taboos matter-of-factly, love in varied forms drives the characters without offering easy redemption.