Ragamuffin

Ragamuffin

by
Tobias S. Buckell

Synopsis of Ragamuffin

The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically ...free,... mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. The secretive alien Satraps tightly restrict the technological development of the species under their control. Entire worlds have been placed under interdiction, cut off from the rest of the universe. Descended from the islanders of lost Earth, the Ragamuffins are pirates and smugglers, plying the lonely spaceways around a dead wormhole. For years, the Satraps have tolerated the Raga, but no longer. Now they have embarked on a campaign of extermination, determined to wipe out the unruly humans once and for all. But one runaway woman may complicate their plans. Combat enabled, Nashara is more machine than flesh, and she carries inside her a doomsday weapon that could reduce the entire galaxy to chaos. A hunted fugitive, she just wants to get home before she's forced to destroy civilization---and herself.

Reviews of Ragamuffin

70%

One gets instantly immersed in the sense of a truly lived-in future. -- Paul Di Filippo , Scifi.com

This is an exhilarating outer space opera that never slows down... -- Harriet Klausner, Alternative Worlds

...exciting and inventive space adventure. -- Don D'Ammassa, Critical Mass

Nitpicking aside, I thought this was still a good Book overall -- John DeNardo, SFSignal.com

...good follow-up to Crystal Rain, if not up to the standards of that Book. -- JP Frantz, SFSignal.com