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Slow Bullets

by Alastair Reynolds

One soldier wakes after the war to find humanity's memory—and future—dying with her ship.

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About Slow Bullets

As a vast interstellar war ends, conscripted soldier Scur is captured and left for dead. She awakens aboard a malfunctioning prisoner transport whose passengers, drawn from both sides of the conflict, have awakened after an unexpectedly long voyage. With the ship failing and their memory-bearing slow bullets among the last links to the civilisation they knew, Scur must confront an old enemy and help decide what humanity can preserve.

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Spice
None
Darkness
Dark
Pacing
Fast
Content warnings
  • war
  • torture
  • body horror

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