Sisters of the Vast Black

[psocoptera]

Sisters of the Vast Black, Lina Rather. Nuns... in... spaaaaace! I really liked this - I liked the nuance of the different reasons the nuns have for joining the order, and the ways their problems are both science fictional (living ship!) and very Catholic (obedience to the Church vs conscience) and the ways those intersected (if you're a celibate order, is it okay for your living ship to mate and make babies?). As with everything I ever read that ever makes me cry, I inevitably ended up reading the crying part at karate (okay, that's not true, occasionally I get a crying part on the playground instead). Recommended, to the extent that I think I'm going to use one of my remaining novella slots on it. Oh, and, F/F. Oh, also and, it turns out Lina Rather wrote "Seven Permutations of my Daughter", a 2017 Lightspeed story I remember liking.

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[oracne]

That sounds great!