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Then Will the Sun Rise Alabaster (Machine Mandate) by [Benjanun Sriduangkaew]

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

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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
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 24 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #497,706 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #253 in 45-Minute Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads
- #843 in 45-Minute Literature & Fiction Short Reads
- #5,466 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Kindle Store)

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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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Robert Shuler

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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alannaeowyn

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.

3 people found this helpful

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mark gronlund

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.

4 people found this helpful

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Simulation Fiction

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.

2 people found this helpful

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Ollie@TheStoneCloud

I wished I hadn't waited so long to read this. Brilliant.

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2020

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What an awesome and Intense read, i was entranced. I cannot recommend this highly enough, especially to a hard scifi fan.

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Kindle Customer

Great read

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2019

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Well written and engaging. A clear and clever plot that grabs your attention quickly. I will be reading more from this author with much anticipation.

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RedStarReviews

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

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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Dean Jones

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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