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The Fourth Consort

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內容簡介 關鍵字：米奇7號、米奇17號道頓以為自己是代表人類加入星際聯盟的英雄，沒想到隊友竟是貪婪巨蝸(對，一隻巨大蝸牛)與各懷鬼胎的助手。在一場宇宙遭遇戰後，他被迫受困異星，夾在噩夢般的突擊隊、不友善的星球土著，以及隨時可能背叛他的夥伴之間。《第四任配偶》(暫譯)完美結合第一類接觸、黑色幽默與怪誕三角關係。當生存變成一場瘋狂的宮廷陰謀，為了活下去，你願意付出多大代價？更重要的是——在那之前你得喝多少酒才下得了手？A new standalone sci-fi novel from Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (the inspiration for the major motion picture Mickey 17).Dalton Greaves is a hero. He’s one of humankind’s first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into a single benevolent brotherhood.That’s what they told him, anyway. The only actual members of Unity that he’s ever met are Boreau, a giant snail who seems more interested in plunder than spreading love and harmony, and Boreau’s human sidekick, Neera, who Dalton strongly suspects roped him into this gig so that she wouldn’t become the next one of Boreau’s crew to get eaten by locals while prospecting.Funny thing, though―turns out there actually is a benevolent confederation out there, working for the good of all life. They call themselves the Assembly, and they really don’t like Unity. More to the point, they really, really don’t like Unity’s new human minions.When an encounter between Boreau’s scout ship and an Assembly cruiser over a newly discovered world ends badly for both parties, Dalton finds himself marooned, caught between a stickman, one of the Assembly’s nightmarish shock troops, the planet’s natives, who aren’t winning any congeniality prizes themselves, and Neera, who might actually be the most dangerous of the three. To survive, he’ll need to navigate palace intrigue, alien morality, and a proposal that he literally cannot refuse, all while making sure Neera doesn’t come to the conclusion that he’s worth more to her dead than alive.Part first contact story, part dark comedy, and part bizarre love triangle, The Fourth Consort asks an important question: how far would you go to survive? And more importantly, how many drinks would you need to go there?

作者介紹

作者介紹 Edward Ashton Edward Ashton (he him) is the author of the novels Three Days in April, The End of Ordinary, Mickey7, Antimatter Blues, and Mal Goes to War, as well as of short stories which have appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage company to Escape Pod, Analog, and Fireside Fiction. He lives in a cabin on the shore of an inland sea, where he enjoys wandering the woods with a neurotic hound, teaching quantum physics to sullen graduate students, and whittling.

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