Prism Stalker: The Weeping Star
Slaone Leong
Softcover, 160 pp.
Volume 2 of an ongoing Indigenous sci-fi adventure series. For fans of Octavia Butler, Sailor Moon, and the biopunk horror of David Cronenberg.
Vep is a young refugee raised away from her devastated home planet as an indentured citizen in a foreign colony. The planet grows more inhospitable as it’s colonization at the hand of the Chorus continues. Vep and her fellow students are reaching the end of their basic combat training in the pneumatic arts and begin to exercise their abilities outside the colony-city of Elefstris. Their objective: subdue the unruly planet bent on scouring the Chorus’ presence from its surface. But what exactly are they subjugating? And what will the cost of conquering be?