In the Cube

by David Alexander Smith

Overview

A century from now, Boston is like no other place on Earth: an enormous Cube containing millions of human and alien beings. Boston is slowly sinking, but it's also the site of Earth's only interstellar port-a gateway that has brought dozens of extraterrestrial races to the Cube.

Beverly O'Meara is a private detective, a finder of lost people and things. Akktry, her partner, is a small, sharp-clawed animal that has an inhuman affinity with the past, able to recreate the history of any place or person from the remains of the present. A useful talent for a detective...

Especially since the most powerful-and hated-woman in the Cube has hired Beverly to track down her missing daughter. Especially since Diana Sherwood's trail leads straight into the Basement, the oldest, lowest, most dangerous part of Boston. The part below sea level.

The part you can down in...

"In the Cube is David Alexander Smith's best book.... Not only do his humans live and breathe, but he has drawn some of the strangest and most convincing aliens you'll ever meet." -Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author James Patrick Kelly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515458258
Publisher:	Fantastic Books
Publication date:	12/10/2024
Series:	Future Boston , #3
Pages:	242
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d)

Editorial Reviews

Science-fiction detective yarn set in a medium-future Boston literally crawling with weird aliens: Smith's hardcover debut. Twenty-first-century Boston has been the site of momentous events: alien contact (involving dozens of species) and the establishment of an interstellar portal, the US government's challenge of Boston's subsequent monopoly of interstellar trade, a dreadful siege followed by independence from the US in all but name. Physically, the city has become a gigantic enclosed cube, outside of which most residents never venture. Now, Diana, the adopted daughter of City Operator Iris Sherwood, has gone missing; Sherwood calls in private detective Beverley O'Meara and her partner, Akktri, a furry alien Phner. Despite her misgivings (Beverley blames Sherwood for the death of her father during the Siege), Beverley takes the job—and immediately earns the enmity of persons high up in the Boston power structure; she learns that what seemed to be a case of kidnap and blackmail actually hinges on a mother/daughter love/hate relationship. In resolving the case, Beverley gains new insights into her Phner partner and his alien motivations. Hard-working, inventive, and colorful, but also uncontrolled—with far too many different aliens, improbable sleuthing, and a general air of futuristic soap opera.

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