![]() ![]() Mary Sullivan: Much of this book is about hunger. Pintip graciously shared her time to tell us more about her new novel. This story has it all: cool space technology, competitions for power, fights to the death, and of course: star-crossed lovers. The worst part of all? Vela’s love interest is the fittest. Keeping him alive means selecting the fittest among them to sacrifice as an organ donor to the king. He’s old and his Aegis organs are giving out. Her best friend is dying because Vela snuck her food since they were kids. The colony is built on sacrifice, but teenage princess Vela is over it. However, if they eat even one bite of real food, the pill won’t work, and they could die. It keeps people alive, but the non-Aegis colonists are constantly hungry. The supplement is distributed to everyone else. They eat until their bellies are full, and then nutrition is extracted from their bodies and made into a pill. The colonists can’t grow enough actual food to feed everyone, so a select few are designated to be Aegis: the people who eat. Pintip Dunn’s new sci-fi YA, Star-Crossed, is a clever space opera set on a colony with very few resources. ![]()
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