Bøger af Lina Rather

Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, monstrosity, and the rending of the world, for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Death of Jane Lawrence."An entrancing and transformative queer tale of cosmic horror."-Caitlin Starling"A blood sacrifice of a novel."-Meg ElisonIn 17th-century London, unnatural babies are being born, with eyes made for the dark and webbed digits suited to the sea.Sarah Davis is intimately familiar with such strangeness-having hidden her uncanny nature all her life and fled to London under suspicious circumstances, Sarah starts over as a midwife's apprentice to a member of the illegal Worshipful Company of Midwives, hoping to carve out for herself an independent life. But with each new unnatural birth, the fear in London grows of the Devil's work.When the wealthy Lady Wren hires her to see her through her pregnancy, Sarah quickly becomes a favorite of her husband, the famous architect Lord Christopher Wren, whose interest in the uncanny borders on obsession. Sarah soon finds herself caught in a web of magic and intrigue created by those who want to use her power for themselves, and whose pursuits threaten to unmake the earth itself.

Muchos años atrás, la Vieja Tierra comenzó a enviar misiones religiosas para colonizar todos los confines del espacio. Así nació la congregación de monjas de la Orden de Santa Rita, que a bordo de Nuestra Señora de las Constelaciones Imposibles, una nave viviente, surca la oscuridad de la galaxia ofreciendo su misericordia y su fe. Cuando la orden recibe una llamada de auxilio desde una colonia desconocida, las monjas descubren que las almas y los cuerpos a su cargo, así como los de la diáspora galáctica, se encuentran en peligro; un peligro que proviene del Gobierno Central y de la propia Iglesia.Lina Rather es una autora de ficción especulativa natural de Michigan, Estados Unidos y que actualmente reside en Washington D. C. Sus historias han aparecido en diversas publicaciones tales como Shimmer, Flash Fiction Online y Lightspeed. Los pocos ratos en los que no está frente al ordenador escribiendo es habitual encontrarla cocinando alguna receta deliciosa, caminando por la montaña o disfrutando de su colección de tebeos de los años noventa. «Hermanas de la vasta oscuridad» es su primera novela.

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, the follow-up to Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black, winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society Award."We lit the spark, maybe we should be here for the flames."Not long ago, Earth's colonies and space stations threw off the yoke of planet Earth's tyrannical rule. Decades later, trouble is brewing in the Four Systems, and Old Earth is flexing its power in a bid to regain control over its lost territories. The Order of Saint Rita-whose mission is to provide aid and mercy to those in need-bore witness to and defied Central Governance's atrocities on the remote planet Phyosonga III. The sisters have been running ever since, staying under the radar while still trying to honor their calling. Despite the sisters' secrecy, the story of their defiance is spreading like wildfire, spearheaded by a growing anti-Earth religious movement calling for revolution. Faced with staying silent or speaking up, the Order of Saint Rita must decide the role they will play-and what hand they will have-in reshaping the galaxy.

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina Rather's debut novella, Sisters of the Vast Black.A Golden Crown Literary Society Award FinalistYears ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard Our Lady of Impossible Constellations, a living, breathing ship which seems determined to develop a will of its own.When the order receives a distress call from a newly-formed colony, the sisters discover that the bodies and souls in their care-and that of the galactic diaspora-are in danger. And not from void beyond, but from the nascent Central Governance and the Church itself.