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Lina Rather

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Lina Rather is a speculative fiction author from Michigan, now living in Washington, D.C. Her short fiction has appeared in venues including Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, and Shimmer. Her debut novella, Sisters of the Vast Black, is about nuns living in a giant slug in outer space and was published by Tor.Com Publishing in October 2019. When she isn’t writing, she likes to cook, go hiking, and collect terrible 90s comic books. Find out more about her and her writing at linarather.com or on Twitter @LinaRather.

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	Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 5,565 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #2) 3.77 avg rating — 1,516 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Season of Monstrous Conceptions 3.69 avg rating — 1,315 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2020 by C.L. Clark (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charles Payseur (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Our Own Worlds #2: Four LGBTQ+ Tor.com Novellas by Katharine Duckett (Goodreads Author), Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author), Lina Rather (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tor.com Publishing 2019 Debut Sampler by Tor Books, Katharine Duckett (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Giesbrecht (Goodreads Author) 3.39 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 144, May 2022 by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Grace Chan (Goodreads Author), Tobias S. Buckell (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thin Red Jellies 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night the River Meets the Sky really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flash Fiction Online April 2018 by Lina Rather (Goodreads Author), Aaron DaMommio, M.E. Owens liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We're all just scattered, lonely specks out here, unless we try to become more. We shouldn't be brutal just because the universe is.”
― Lina Rather, Sisters of the Vast Black

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“If all they could be were small rocks to break the current, it would have to be enough.”
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“She was one small part of an infinity, and there was much to be done.”
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¿Qué leemos en julio-agosto de 2021?

ACTUAL: Homine ex machina, de Carlos Sisí

26 votes, 25.0%

CLÁSICO: Una mirada a la oscuridad, de Philip K. Dick

24 votes, 23.1%

ACTUAL: Hermanas de la vasta oscuridad, de Lina Rather

21 votes, 20.2%

CLÁSICO: Cadete del espacio, de Robert A. Heinlein

20 votes, 19.2%

ACTUAL: Dormir en un mar de estrellas, de Christopher Paolini

11 votes, 10.6%

CLÁSICO: Un caso de conciencia, de James Blish

2 votes, 1.9%

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