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“The Vanished Birds is a novel that is thoughtful, character-driven, and literary. It also features interstellar travel, time jumps, teleportation, and corporate skullduggery. It’s a beautifully written debut novel with so much to say about corporate malfeasance and colonization, all of it managed with gripping action scenes, and a strong plotline.” Read more...
Kate Elliott, Novelist
“The Vanished Birds, opens with an absolute classic of that intergalactic perspective—picture a very distant planet, a very low tech planet that was colonised in some distant past and is now home to generations of farmers. Every 15 years, the skies open and a fleet of ships descend upon the fields. The ships are described as being made of metal and cloth—and we don’t know whether we’re seeing this through the eyes of somebody who just doesn’t know what they’re seeing or if it’s a literal description—but it’s a very beautiful image that remind me of Sir Arthur’s famous line that ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’.” Read more...
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