A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers, #1)

by Alex White

The magi, clad in vermilion uniforms, poured from the ship in waves, clearly superior fighters to the ragtag crew of the Capricious.

the prime minister of Taitu is one of those damned gods.”

Kendall Hopkins, commander of the Kingbreaker, is now Dwight Mandell, Prime Minister.”

inveigler’s mark,”

nor would he be considered a prime minister by the all-powerful Henrick Witts.

Boots

Clothed in Witts, he wasn’t a mere smuggler but an unstoppable force, a tidal wave of inexorable will.

seeing such a close family friend turn out to be the scum of the universe,

he’d helped Henrick Witts drain the life from Clarkesfall, relegating its citizens to civil war.

Dwight had the inveigler’s mark, giving him the ability to charm his targets.

How would his inveigler’s mark change with godlike energy?

I have to see him. The galaxy… needs to see what he is.”

“And, uh, just in case we all get, you know, brainwashed… I’m deauthorizing all users from your memory banks, myself included.”

Kin had been her AI for nearly twenty years. She was friends with it.

People have to hear this story. They’ve got to shut down the last race.”

Simile

He believed the galaxy deserved to die. Who was she to question a god?

Ridiculous

“The public can’t know that Nilah Brio and her compatriots brought the Harrow here. No one can be allowed to inspect this ship.”

“All magic is fleeting. You’ll one day come to hate me.”

“I think it’s only fitting,” said Dwight, “that you and your soldiers kill yourselves.”

Ridiculous. And why not kill Nilah and her cnpanioms too?

Nilah wished for one of the soldier’s slingers so that she could end her worthless existence.

“It is what it is, my dear.

She’d unravel Kin just like she’d unraveled Ranger, just like the springflies.

Aisha

her paltry life given to save true greatness.

Reverence became pity.

The spell came free of her bones.

Pity became ...

Horror becam...

this was how a god dies—

Nilah

billowing curtains, and through them, an impossibly bright emerald sea.

find her father,

Malik’s silhouette.

“Malik,

Haha

Haha

Now that I’ve gotten the antidote,

Boots

usurer mage

the Mirror—

one of the most famous lakes in the entire galaxy, nestled in Taitu’s capital

A...

the verdant bio gel,

“Your medical expenses will be covered by the state,”

Henrick Witts,

now part of her wasn’t Boots.

Cordell,

“One god down,” said Cordell. “Three,” corrected Boots. “Prejean, Mother, and Mandell.”