She finds an unlikely ally in Theo, the Surgeon General, the white-passing bastard son of the former Sovreign and of a lower-decker woman, raised among the upper class but struggling with his own role and identity. Thanks to her fortuitously gathered medical knowledge, however, she manages to earn some respect and to help those around her despite their dire circumstances. Synopsis: On the generation ship Matilda, all passengers are organized in a rigidly stratified society, where those with dark skin are relegated to the lower decks, where they are forced to carry out the hard labour that allows the upper-deckers to live a life of leisure, and are tightly policed by vicious overseers that have little restraint in abusing of their power.Īster, the main character, is a lower-deck healer orphaned as an infant after her mother’s alledged suicide, ambiguously gendered, neurodivergent, she’s an outsider even among her peers.
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