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Countess
By Suzan Palumbo
2 Aug, 2024
Doing the WFC's Homework
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Suzan Palumbo’s 2024 Countess is an upcoming stand-alone revolutionary space opera.
Forced off Terra by climate-change-induced flooding, Virika Sameroo’s Caribbean ancestors fled to the Exterran Antilles system. An immigration lottery win saw Virika and her parents escape economic privation for the comparative wealth of Invicta, capital of the Æcerbot Empire.
All the Empire asked of her father was to work hard for poor wages for as long as it took for an industrial accident to kill him. All the Empire asked of Virika was for her abandon her parents’ culture and become in all ways possible a standardized subject of the Empire.
Virika has followed the rules her whole life. Now she will enjoy the reward.