The Meaning Wars: The Complete Omnibus (1-5) by Michelle Patricia Browne
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Overview: Two best friends looking for love.
An oppressive interstellar government.
Adulthood has never been so stressful…
For the first time, all five books in The Meaning Wars are united as a complete collection. In this queer space opera featuring a diverse cast, a found family navigates the politics of revolution and freedom.
Join Crystal, a wormhole engineer, and Sarah, an English Literature graduate with a chip on her shoulder, as they try to find romance and friendship – while an oppressive interstellar government watches their every move.
As Crystal deals with her faltering marriage, Sarah makes risky career decisions – by doing what’s morally right. Running from the surveillance state of the Human Conglomerate, will the Interfederation’s multi-species alliance prove their salvation? A crew of old friends and a union of renegade space pirates may be their way out. But first, they have to save rebel icon Patience Ngouabi from arrest and certain torture – and make sure they all get out alive.
Genre: Fiction > Romance | FF
#1 – And The Stars Will Sing
It’s her first job…and it’s already going wrong.
Freshly graduated from university with a degree in engineering, Crystal approaches her placement on the wormhole-constructive ship Crossing Paths with nothing but enthusiasm. But while Crystal gets used to the ins and outs of a multispecies, multicultural ship, tension brews both at work and back home.
Not murdering her coworker Jai is hard enough; the last thing she needs are the terrifying errors cropping up on her maps. Reality and space are either tearing themselves apart – or someone else is attacking them. With conspiracies lurking everywhere, friendship won’t be enough to see her through these dangerous new problems…
#2 – The Stolen: Two Short Stories
Refugees and renegades vie for survival and joy…
In "The Fields," a strict Caste system rules dry, distant Indus. Bold rebellions against social norms have set Clarice apart, but the Behavioural Corrections Centre has finally caught her in its dusty claws. Clarice is unprepared for the cruelty of her captors, and how far they will go to make the inmates conform.
In "The Wordthieves," the city of Corinth is beautiful, clean – and uptight, and boring. It’s exactly the wrong place for Sarah Jean White, but they were hiring English majors, and she needed a job. But scraping the life and colour out of books is no way to make a living, and Sarah has more than a few private qualms.
When a familiar face reenters her life, she’s overjoyed at the disruption – and totally unprepared for the chances to come. She’s been able to endure the Human Conglomerate’s creeping, oppressive politics by flouting the small rules – but everything has a price, and catches up to you eventually…
#3 – The Meaning Wars
On the way to a new wormhole-building gig, Crystal and her husband Jai fight over the future of their family. But the safe haven of their base is paradise compared to Pluto. Recovering from her imprisonment, Sarah and her cousin Toby try to scrape their lives back together and stay out of trouble on the icy planetoid. Rebel leader Patience Ngouabi’s actions have triggered a growing insurrection on the colony planet of Indus, and the shock waves have reached even the Solar system’s worlds. Both Crystal and Sarah will have to decide between uneasy peace and constant danger – if they get to choose at all.
#4 – Poe’s Outlaws
A new start, new loves – and old problems…
Leaving her abusive husband, Crystal finds herself desperately in need of a vacation. She heads off to Nirvana, a resort planet far from the Solar System. Craving company, she invites Sarah, her cousin Toby, and Sarah’s mentor Paulo to join her. Paulo calls on a former partner, but his arrival – and the job he offers – throw Crystal and Sarah’s new lives into chaos. Temptation and a stunning revelation bewilder Crystal. Meanwhile, Sarah decides on a risky rescue mission that puts her ideals to the test. It’s time to put up or shut up – because a revolutionary icon needs their help.
#5 – A Jade’s Trick
Outgunned. Outmanned. Outnumbered.
But out of luck? Not yet…
Crystal has left her abusive husband, and Sarah and her crew have successfully rescued rebel leader Patience Ngouabi. As Patience and Sarah connect, they begin to see a life beyond their struggles in the rebellion. Now this queer found-family crew just has to fight the tyrannical Human Conglomerate into submission. But fighting an interstellar empire is going to take more than big guns. They need funding and allies. Could a renegade – but unionized – group of pirates be their unlikely saviours? A sinister, shadowy political figure back on Ganymede may also be willing to help – and that means going right back to danger’s heart.
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