OUT NOW: Ion Curtain by Anya Ow
19th July 2022
We’re so excited to be wishing Ion Curtain by Anya Ow a very happy book birthday!
AI is brutal, vicious and efficient in this space opera of pirates, politics and spies, perfect for fans of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch and James S. A. Corey’s The Expanse.
“Citizens of the Federation. Greetings from the Core.”
For decades the UN and the Russian military have navigated a tense interstellar Cold War.
Lieutenant Kalina Sokolova is aide to Counter-Admiral Kasparov, the major strategist for the Russian Navy. She is also an elite spy working for the UN. She is tasked with watching the Counter-Admiral, and assassination is not out of the question.
Solitaire Yeung is a corsair, a scavenger, a pirate. In the heart of a destroyed Russian battleship, his salvage crew makes an explosive discovery: the brain of the ship’s top secret artificial intelligence. And against their better judgment, they take it and run.
The UN wants it, and the Russians want it back, but they’re not the only ones hunting it. An even more powerful foe grows in the darkness of space. Now all of humanity has to fight to survive…
“Anya Ow’s Ion Curtain is a fast moving, deeply satisfying space opera complete with loveable rogues and messy politics. I was hooked from the very first page and can’t wait to see what happens next.” — K.B. Wagers, author of Hold Fast Through the Fire
“An addictive space opera” — Publishers Weekly