Aberdeen Science Fiction Book Club

I think it's been a while since we've done a grand space opera, and from what I've read of this it will be the adrenaline burst needed to kick us into the winter months. It's a longer one again so receives the 'tome alert' so make sure you give plenty of time to it.

AI, intergalactic war, twists and deception all come out in the summaries of this so I hope it can light a good discussion for us.
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The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship exploding.

She expected to be recovered by salvage-medics and to awaken in friendly hands, patched-up and ready to rejoin the fight. Instead she wakes up 230 years later, on a deserted enemy starship called The Light of Berossus - or, as he prefers to call himself, 'Bero'.

Bero tells Sanda the war is lost. That the entire star system is dead.
But is that the full story? After all, in the vastness of space, anything is possible . . .

I came across this collection of short stories when embarking on the impossible task of trying to find an author that hits the high standard of Ted Chiang, and found many recommendations of Tiptree giving that same human feeling to the tales, even though she often writes about beings that are very much not human and I thought aha, I've found the last book for the year!

This sounds like a very eclectic mix of stories, from an aulder era of science fiction so I'm sure it will provoke the usual lively chatter.
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Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and outlandish tales of Alice B. Sheldon are some of the greatest science fiction short stories of the twentieth century, telling of dystopian chases, alien sex and the loneliness of the universe.