Sky in the Deep: 1 (Sky and Sea)

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Open clusters are pretty. This makes them fun to look at for beginning amateur astronomers. But many advanced amateurs spend a great deal of time observing open clusters as well. Compared with other deep-sky objects, open clusters are relatively large. This means you will generally be using low-power eyepieces, which provide wide fields of view. Some clusters are large enough and bright enough that binoculars will provide more satisfying views. WHOLLY UNIQUE AND INSTANTLY ADDICTIVE” —Kerri Maniscalco, New York Times bestselling author of Hunting Prince Dracula Sentences were choppy. Like. A lot. It was hard. Finding a single compound sentence. And. It made it hard. To follow early transitions. Not smooth. Awkward. The romance in this book is so very sweet despite it being a brutal book full of battle scenes and fierce characters. The enemies to lovers romance is very slow-burn, but it is really sweet and doesn’t distract from the story. The two started out as rivals from two different clans until they find themselves forced to live together which changes their situation completely. Sky in the Deep hit me in the feels with its focus on family relationships, both blood family and found family, and in particular the close and complicated sibling relationships. Aaaaagh my favorite!

He nodded. He wasn’t going to say it wouldn’t happen because we’d both seen enough clansmen fall to know it could. “And if you don’t?” The weight of it fell from my head, down into the rest of my body. The words were small but they were true. “I’m thinking that I wish you’d died that day.” If there's one good thing to say about this story, is that it is inclusive, pronouns flying all around. FIERCE, VIVID, AND VIOLENTLY BEAUTIFUL. ” —Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval It is, however, a debut novel, and sometimes that showed in the writing - happily in it being a little too straightforward at times, though, rather than overly flowery. And the science side of the science fiction was mostly hand-waved, but then would occasionally need focus to serve the story - I much prefer it being either glossed over entirely, or consistent in the level of detail at least.We will make a sacrifice tonight. He let me go before he pressed his hands to my face again. "I don’t think I’ve ever heard you scream for me like that. You scared me, sváss." A laugh was buried deep in his chest. The set-up was interesting and scarily plausible. With Earth on the brink of an planet-altering environmental disaster, the countries of the world nominate individuals to compete for a spot on a humanity-saving mission. As with any interstellar mission, space is limited. Asuka is selected as a contender to represent her mother's native-Japan. Although not initially chosen, Asuka earns a spot as an alternate due to unforeseen circumstances.

I know. But you will never be the same. You will never be the same person you were.” He paused. “You are seeing the truth. I see you thinking it, everyday.” I think the primary reason for this was that this didn't work as a sci-fi or thriller/mystery. The extent of the sci-fi in this novel is that they're stated to be in a space ship, have augmented reality, and some bots. The entire premise of the mission and crew just doesn't stand up under basic scrutiny. You absolutely would not have all of your leadership pregnant at the same time,?you wouldn't even have them get pregnant in the first place when you don't have advanced medical tech to eliminate the risks, and you wouldn't have a crew selected that had issues with each other before they began. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five years ago. HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT?? Hnnng, fine. We can just extrapolate from the speed of the ship! How fast are they traveling? I remembered it so clearly—the picture of him like a reflection on ice. Iri’s lifeless body at the bottom of the trench. Lying across the perfect white snow, blood seeping out around him in a melted pool. I could still see his blond hair fanned out around his head, his empty eyes wide open and staring into nothing.The star (now called the central star of the nebula) is extremely hot, reaching temperatures of 200,000 Kelvin. It also emits a large amount of ultraviolet radiation. This radiation ionizes the gas of the expanding planetary nebula and causes it to glow. Planetary nebulae have short lives, at least visually. As the shell expands, the white dwarf’s energy can excite the gas, but only out to a certain distance. So after 10,000 to 50,000 years, the planetary nebula stops glowing. It’s still expanding, but we can no longer see it. Most astronomers agree that a planetary nebula is the fate of our Sun in approximately 5 billion years. After stars form, they arrange themselves into clusters. So do galaxies. Clusters of galaxies may be made up of a handful of galaxies or as many as a thousand. As with star clusters, clusters of galaxies are held together by mutual gravitational attraction. Please note that a galactic cluster and a cluster of galaxies are totally different. The first is a group of stars (also known as an open cluster). The second is a group of galaxies. The most famous cluster of galaxies is the one that contains our Milky Way. Known as the Local Group, it is composed of almost 40 members.

With the crew turning on each other, Asuka is determined to find the culprit before they all lose faith in the mission—or worse, the bomber strikes again. Even before the explosion, Asuka struggled with feelings of inadequacy. She was the final selection for the mission, faced challenges during training on Earth, and grapples with her dual identity as a half-Japanese girl raised in America. With her strained relationship with her mother and the crew members turning against each other, The Phoenix becomes Asuka's sole anchor. Stop worrying about me. I ran a hand over the right side of my head where my hair was shorn to the scalp under the length of the braids. She knows she will have to escape and kill anyone that gets in her way including her brother if need be.

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Bleak, beautiful, and deadly, Sky in the Deep is both a gritty, gut-wrenching tale of war and a thoughtful meditation on identity, family, and faith–a story with the ferocity of its main character as well as her raw and tender heart.” So, TL-DR; if you’re gonna read this, read it for the story, the political commentary and the main character. Asuka is the "Alternate" on the starship EvenStar. As her title entails, she's the one person from the crew to do odd jobs here and there. She was the last person to be selected to travel to Planet X. A new home world for the human race. When on a space walk with Kat, to better inspect "a blurred" shape on the outer hull of the ship (one that isn't clear, not even when using bots to go and inspect it, mind you), an explosion renders her unconscious, and kills Kat. The sudden detonations takes the EvenStar out of course.