An Unkindness of Ghosts
★★★★★Read Jan 26, 2026 · read 2 times
Very good and disturbing novel. I love generation ship stories. This story is that but it's a bleak and hopeless one. Not only has civilization and technology failed on the ship but so has politics and the current society is a brutal and inequitable community. With a lot of physical and sexual violence suffered by our protagonist and her friends.
It's all sympathetically written. And there's moments and love and grace, queer moments at that. The book is depressing but also humane and at times lovely.
Looking forward to more from this author!
Goodreads readers give it 3.95★, from 22,526 ratings. I gave it 3★, −1.0, where I'm usually −0.9: I rated it like most.
Readers call it Science Fiction, Queer, LGBT, Fantasy, Dystopia, Speculative Fiction.
Nominated for Stonewall Book Award 2018, James Tiptree Jr. Award 2017, Lambda Literary Award 2017, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2018 and 1 more.