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The Folded Sky (White Space Book 3) by Elizabeth Bear

By John Folk-Williams

The Folded Sky

Elizabeth Bear’s The Folded Sky, the third novel in her White Space series, tells a stand-alone story, full of grand space opera tropes, including Alcubierre-White drives that fold space for faster than light travel, space pirates, sentient ships, a diverse crew of “syster” species, and a star about to go nova. But it’s not just […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: alien language, alien life forms, artificial intelligence, Elizabeth Bear, family, spaceships, story-telling

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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

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