![]() ![]() This gives you a little bit of flavor about the world and an inkling about what the protagonist, Aster, goes through. When strangers or new acquaintances ask, my long but single sentence pitch is something like: In the low-deck slums of a generation ship on its way to a mythical Promised Land, a healer investigates the suicide of her mother and its connection to the ship’s mysterious voyage. Oh, I have such a difficult time with this question because I think people often mean slightly different things when they ask it. To begin, what is An Unkindness Of Ghosts about? But in talking to Solomon about it, they revealed that the setting is about all their book shares with those other stories. Like Sage Walker’s The Man In The Tree, the recent movies Passengers and Alien Covenant, and countless other sci-fi stories, Solomon’s novel is set on a deep space ship heading to a new home. Take Rivers Solomon’s debut novel, An Unkindness Of Ghosts ( paperback, digital). One of the beauties of fiction is that multiple writers can start with the same premise or setting, but end up going in wildly different directions. ![]()
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