• Review

    Empress of the Sun – Everness #3 – Ian McDonald

    Release date: January, 2014 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 389 Format: Hardcover Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. World-hopping, high-action adventure starring a smart boy with computer skills and a tough girl who pilots a blimp The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find themselves above a plain that goes on forever in every direction without any horizon. There they find an Alderson Disc, an astronomical megastructure of incredibly strong material reaching from the orbit of Mercury to the orbit of Jupiter. Then they meet the Jiju, the dominant species on…