The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar (Paperback)

Fiction - Science Fiction - Space Opera - Action & Adventure RELEASE DATE: 4/16/2024 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE) Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhausted dreamer in this brilliant science fiction novella tackling the carceral state and violence embedded in the ivory tower while embodying the legacy of Ursula K. Le Guin. "Can the University be a place of both training and transformation?"The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out amongst the stars.His whole world changes—literally—when he is yanked "upstairs" to meet the woman he will come to call “professor.” The boy is no longer one of the Chained, she tells him, and he has been gifted an opportunity to be educated at the ship’s university alongside the elite.The woman has spent her career striving for acceptance and validation from her colleagues in the hopes of reaching a brighter future, only to