The novellas in the Diving universe have won three Asimov's Readers
Choice Awards. When multiple Hugo Award-winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch
decided to put her stamp on classic space opera, readers and listeners
wanted more. Now Rusch's popular character Boss returns in a whole new
adventure, one that takes her far outside her comfort zone, to a sector
of space she's never seen before.
Searching for ancient technology to help her friends find answers to the
mystery of their own past, Boss ventures into a place filled with
evidence of an ancient space battle, one the Dignity Vessels lost.
Meanwhile, the Enterran Empire keeps accidentally killing its scientists
in a quest for ancient stealth tech. Boss's most difficult friend,
Squishy, has had enough. She sneaks into the Empire and destroys its
primary stealth-tech research base. But an old lover thwarts her escape,
and now Squishy needs Boss's help. Boss, who is a fugitive in the
Empire. Boss, who knows how to make a Dignity Vessel work. Boss, who
knows that Dignity Vessels house the very technology that the Empire is
searching for.
Should Boss take a Dignity Vessel to rescue Squishy and risk losing
everything to the Empire? Or should Boss continue on her mission for her
other friends and let Squishy suffer her own fate?
Filled with battles old and new, scientific dilemmas, and questions
about the ethics of friendship, Boneyards looks at the influence of
our past on our present and the risks we all take when we meddle in
other people's lives. Boneyards is space opera the way it was meant to
be: exciting, fast moving, and filled with passion.
