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Then Will the Sun Rise Alabaster (Machine Mandate) Kindle Edition

by Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 268 ratings
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On a remote planet, a convent harbors a deadly secret buried beneath quiet violence--a secret that the woman known only as the Alabaster Admiral will obtain at any cost. Set in the same universe as And Shall Machines Surrender.
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    November 4, 2019
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07ZN3Q2WM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prime Books (November 4, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 4, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 179 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 24 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 268 ratings

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

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Benjanun Sriduangkaew writes science fiction and fantasy with a particular interest (both reading and writing) the queer, the post-colonial, the resistant. She was a finalist for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and her first novella, Scale-Bright, was a finalist for the British Science Fiction Association Award. She's lived in Hong Kong, Jakarta, and Bangkok.

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Twitter: twitter.com/benjanun_s

Website: beekian.wordpress.com

Newsletter: www.getrevue.co/profile/benjanun

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4.4 out of 5 stars
4.4 out of 5
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alannaeowyn
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2020
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Beautiful, vivid, cutting prose. I love the characterization, the perspective of a woman watching her horizons open up. The author demonstrates both radical imagination and the skill to depict it effectively, easier to follow than speculative authors like Samuel Delany but no less futuristic.
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M H McKay
4.0 out of 5 stars Heads Up: Blissful SF still lives
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2020
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I found this brief novela a welcome break from bleak politics and the virus apocalypse. It matches my vision of how our bodies and our native, pure nature is one. Long may the body/mind be so celebrated.Mary Oliver was right, you don't have to repent. All you need to do is "let your warm body love what it loves."
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RedStarReviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2020
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Well written. Extremely eloquent in a way that demands and holds on to your attention and causes you to quickly become invested in the characters.
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Pam&Larry Wilt
5.0 out of 5 stars A thoughtful treatment of force in religion in a science fiction context
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2020
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The plot unwinds from a narrow perspective of the heroine's confines to reveal a much more complicated reality. This unwinding is the plot.
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mark gronlund
5.0 out of 5 stars exquisite and sublime
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2019
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A meditation on forced religious conversion and a spiritual awakening of a lesbian. Intrigue and deception await a young nun as an alluring figure enters her monastery bring danger and intoxication. Highly recommended.
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Simulation Fiction
5.0 out of 5 stars Short but moving
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2020
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Excellent writing. It's a short story, but that's fine at this price. It's loosely a sequel to And Shall Machines Surrender, also excellent storytelling and world building.
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ht
3.0 out of 5 stars A tale of emancipation.
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2020
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Endearing but excessively short and with a rushed ending. Can not fathom the significance of this story to this fictional universe, except for the tangencial depiction of Alabaster.
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Robert Shuler
2.0 out of 5 stars rescuers take sexual advantage of the woman being rescued
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2021
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This book is very short, not even a novella. And very confusing. Elements such as the pagan scriptorium are never explained, especially as to how it could exist in the convent. Nor why the AI spy would not have been discovered when its tongue was cut out, or why it would be part of the pagan-lesbian-promotion effort, trying to recruit Panthida. Nor why the head of a rather large mercenary organization would personally go on a small almost insignificant kidnap victim retrieval mission placing herself in danger. It is a fantasy of lesbian seduction by a warlord, straight out, without logical basis as the author adheres to in her longer novel-length works.

It is not unpleasant to read. It is less obtuse than the longer works, i.e. does not use so many rare or unknown words (a few made up ones). It is very anti-Christian, but even that did not bother me too much. What annoyed the heck out of me was the double standard. Had the warlord been a male, this would have been considered literature promoting sexual exploitation. I think I'm finally disgusted with this author.
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Dean Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars .
Reviewed in France on November 29, 2019
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Shorter than I’d like, but this is true of all this authors works and is more a testament to her storytelling skills and use of language than a complaint. The sci-fi setting Is Banksian transhumanism in tone but a touch less utopian and the population explicitly non-Eurocentric; while there may well be men present somewhere in the universe they very much take a backseat to the muscular lesbian warlords, and frankly the setting is refreshingly different for it. Very, very much looking forward to future works.
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