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Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for stories told around the cookfire.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS\u00a0Matilda<\/em>, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, the\u00a0Matilda<\/em>\u00a0has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship’s leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n When the autopsy of\u00a0Matilda<\/em>‘s sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother’s suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother’s footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sowing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she’s willing to fight for it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Awards<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,203],"tags":[5,13,12,113,6,218,8],"age_group":[135],"queer_identity":[151,142,141],"relationship":[153,158,157],"intersecting_identities":[161,165,164],"genre":[194,183],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intersex","category-trans-and-nonbinary","tag-author-of-color","tag-includes-romance","tag-includes-sex-scene","tag-ends-with-queer-protagonists-alive","tag-queer-author","tag-award-nominated","tag-traditionally-published","age_group-adult","queer_identity-intersex","queer_identity-nonbinary-genderqueer","queer_identity-trans","relationship-f-f","relationship-f-nb","relationship-nb-nb","intersecting_identities-black","intersecting_identities-mentally-ill","intersecting_identities-neurodivergent","genre-dystopian","genre-science-fiction"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/290.jpg?fit=317%2C475&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"age_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age_group?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"queer_identity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/queer_identity?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"relationship","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/relationship?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"intersecting_identities","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/intersecting_identities?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Representation Includes<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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