racing across the stars, sometimes a step ahead of their pursuers, sometimes a step behind. It’s a wonderful thing to see characters from different generations interact, and do some in such winsome and often hilarious ways. The diversity in this book isn’t just diversity of orientation, race, or species, but also age, which is somehow almost rarer than some of the other ones. What? Her granddaughter? Yes, the lead character here is a grandma, not some teenager with a chosen one quest (okay, I actually quite enjoy chosen one narratives, but only reading them would get boring eventually). It’s got real found family vibes, but there’s also actual family as Captain Wu’s granddaughter shows up. I fell in love with the characters fairly quickly. They’re quickly on the run, though, as they get some cargo that might be a bit too dangerous for them to have wanted to carry if they’d known about it. She’s a smuggler and a tough fighter, and she’s assembled a motley crew of like-minded individuals who travel with her across the stars. I’ll be reviewing every semi-finalist, as well as several books from other group’s slush piles that looked interesting to me.Ĭaptain Wu: Starship Nameless #1 by Patrice Fitzgerald and Jack LysterĬaptain Wu is the eponymous character in this delightful space adventure. The SPSFC started with 300 books and narrowed it down to 30 semi-finalists.
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