March brings her to a planet where some frontier-type rebels are looking to find and train jumpers before the Corp does and so break their hold on interstellar transport. Of course, March is the pilot of the escape ship, which will mean he and Jax have to connect quite intimately–in their minds. Still, she’s ornery and ragey so March is able to goad her into coming along. It is obvious to everyone but Jax that the Corp is setting her up, but she’s too busy guilt-tripping herself to see it. They meditate, discuss, and he offers her a choice: escape to freedom or die in the Corporation prison. One day a new visitor arrives in her cell, a haughty and aristocratic man. Because of amnesia surrounding the event, she’s been agonizing for weeks, wondering if she’s falling prey to the jumpers’ end-of-life mental illness. Her unusual genetics allow her to ‘jump’ a ship through space and there was a disaster where she and her partner were piloting a ship that crashed and dozens of people died. It begins with the main character, Sirantha Jax in prison. While I’m not entirely sure of my grasp of genre characteristics, it occurs to me that Grimspace is actually soap opera. One occasionally hears the words “space opera” tossed around the science fiction world and it is certainly been applied here. Read June 2016 Recommended for fans of D-R-A-M-A ★ ★ 1/2
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