Ghostdrift

384 pages

English language

Published 2024 by DAW.

ISBN:
978-0-7564-1887-8
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The fourth and final installment of the Finder Chronicles, a hopepunk sci-fi caper described as Macgyver meets Firefly, by Hugo Award-winner Suzanne Palmer

Fergus Ferguson, professional finder, always knew his semi-voluntary exile wouldn’t last, but he isn't expecting a friend to betray him. One of the galaxy’s most dangerous space pirates, Bas Belos, wants him, and what Belos wants, he gets. Belos needs help finding out what happened to his twin sister, who mysteriously disappeared at the edges of space years ago, and he makes Fergus an offer he can't refuse.

Mysterious disappearances and impossible answers are Fergus’ specialties. After he reluctantly joins Belos and his crew aboard the pirate ship Sidewider, he discovers that Belos is being tracked by the Alliance. Seeking to stay one step ahead of the Alliance, Fergus and Belos find themselves marooned in the middle of the Gap between spiral arms of our galaxy, dangerously …

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Ghostdrift

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I didn't think we were getting another Fergus Ferguson book, as the last one ended in a way that felt much more conclusively than the others. It turns out this is due to the first three being a book deal with uncertainty around future books, and this one ends with an easy hook for the next one, so I'm crossing my fingers for more.

If you haven't read any of these books, I feel like Fergus fills a similar role to Miles Vorkosigan. He exists as an element of chaos. You add him into a small trap for a few people and ten minutes later he's finagled his way into capturing a starship. They're not the same characters at all--Fergus is definitely angrier, less gregarious, and more space MacGyver than Miles is--but there's a similar delightful escalation to everything they both get involved with.

This book was a lot of …

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