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Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather




Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather

The novella also features a series of dichotomies. It also discusses the ways in which religious proselytism can be used as a tool of political control. The novel discusses the ethics of space colonization. After this, remaining nuns declare independence from the Catholic Church and vow to continue their mission of servitude and charity. This allows the other nuns to join Vauca's ship, land safely, and save some of the colonists. As penance, she takes the Our Lady on a suicide attack against Earth's ships. The Mother Superior reveals that she was previously a member of Earth Central Governance before becoming a nun, and that her husband designed ringeye as a biological warfare agent. The nuns and Vauca's crew respond, only to find that Earth Central Governance has unleashed the plague in order to trigger another war and regain their power.

Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather

The ship received a distress signal from Phoyongosa III the colonists are suffering from ringeye, a deadly plague. Sister Gemma decides to leave the order when she falls in love with an engineer named Vauca.

Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather

At the same time, the Earth Central Governance sends a priest to join the ship's crew, reasserting control over the previously independent sisters. The Mother Superior is suffering from the early stages of dementia, leading to a crisis among the sisters. They travel to rural colony planets to perform charity work as part of their mission, they visit a colony on the moon Phoyongosa III, where they bless marriages and perform baptisms. The ship is a living organism resembling a slug. Rita is a group of Roman Catholic nuns who live on the spaceship Our Lady of Impossible Constellations. Millions of people died as a result of warfare and biological terrorism. It features a group of spacefaring Roman Catholic nuns performing charity work across the galaxy eventually, they discover a conspiracy that will test their faith.ĭecades prior to the start of the novella, a civil war between Earth Central Governance and its colony planets lead to the loss of Earth's authority. Sisters of the Vast Black is a 2019 LGBT science fiction novella, the debut novella by Lina Rather.






Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather