
Station Eternity
The Midsolar Murders, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Sarah Mollo-Christensen
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By:
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Mur Lafferty
Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her in this witty, self-aware novel that puts a speculative spin on murder mysteries, from the Hugo-nominated author of Six Wakes.
From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroiled in murder cases that only she has the insight to solve. But outside of a classic mystery novel, being surrounded by death doesn’t make you a charming amateur detective, it makes you a suspect and a social pariah. So when Mallory gets the opportunity to take refuge on a sentient space station, she thinks she has the solution. Surely the murders will stop if her only company is alien beings. At first her new existence is peacefully quiet…and markedly devoid of homicide.
But when the station agrees to allow additional human guests, Mallory knows the break from her peculiar reality is over. After the first Earth shuttle arrives, and aliens and humans alike begin to die, the station is thrown into peril. Stuck smack-dab in the middle of an extraterrestrial whodunit, and wondering how in the world this keeps happening to her anyway, Mallory has to solve the crime—and fast—or the list of victims could grow to include everyone on board….
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Critic reviews
“What a glorious romp. Murder, sentient space stations, and banter. It had everything I wanted.” (Mary Robinette Kowal, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Calculating Stars)
“A science fiction mystery has to nail both the science fiction and the mystery, and this book passes both tests with flying colors. As bingeable and satisfying as your favorite murder show. I couldn't put it down.” (Sarah Pinsker, Nebula Award-winning author of A Song For A New Day and We Are Satellites)
“Lafferty's characters stomp off the page, kicking ass and taking names as they do. If Jessica Fletcher ended up on Babylon Five, you still wouldn't get anywhere close to this deft, complicated, fast-moving book. Station Eternity kept me up way too late turning pages.” (T. Kingfisher, Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning author of Paladin's Grace and Nettle & Bone)
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Don't regret listening to it, should have read it.
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Annoying intonation
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So Good!
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While the premise is interesting, the frequent flashbacks hop around extensively with each vignette twisting the interpretation of previous flashbacks. There's some worn out cliches with the US military developing a weapon against all aliens. At the same time, the aliens are just bizarre with familial issues like any dysfunctional Earth family. The long setup to arrange the passenger manifest on the shuttle has the feel of a Hollywood murder mystery where the station is like a castle on a dark and stormy night.
The narration is well done, although the aliens don't seem alien relative to the humans. Pacing is uneven due to the frequent and sudden flashbacks.
Murder in space among aliens
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Very Enjoyable
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Great mystery!
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THAT is essentially the premise for Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity series. Mallory Viridian is a woman who solves murders - and is always around them, connected with them somehow. Unlike the rest of the genre, where nobody seems to think anything is odd about this at all, people start to wonder about Mallory - and start to stay away from her. Mallory wonders about herself as well, and eventually manages to head off into space - where there are no people (no humans, anyway) to get killed around her. Until there are ....
If you are a fan of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently series, you'll enjoy this book and it's rather trippy take on murder mystery tropes. And as in a good Dirk Gently book, you will have to pay REALLY close attention if you want to solve the mystery before Mallory does. That said, this isn't a cozy mystery read - it took me a while, and I put it down several times and read something else to take a break. But Station Eternity pulls you back in every time, and it is worth the effort to really read it and enjoy it.
An interesting take on the entire genre
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Sherlock in Space
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Very inventive and enjoyable sci-fi series!
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Love the action! Love the drama!
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