"A Shifting of Matter", by Jacqueline T.

For this feedback meeting, we will be discussing "A Shifting of Matter" by Jacqueline T. People who RSVP will be given a draft to read in advance. Make sure you RSVP with enough time to read it!

About the book:
"A Shifting of Matter — scifi with fantasy tinges (108,000 words)
When Risandrelle Bolt wakes, she finds her world unrecognizable.
Her planet Xari lies entombed in ice and her kin stolen by aliens intent on weaponizing their psychic gifts—a second shimmer mind that gives them the power to bend the energy of the universe to their will: moving mountains, creating wormholes, even shattering planets.
Desperate to rescue her kin, Risi has no time for the Terrans who unearth her from the frozen wasteland. Geneticists and coders, their science seems small beside the shimmer—until she discovers their children carry astonishing abilities of their own, the result of a radical genetic edit.
Haunted by guilt that she brought the catastrophe upon Xari herself, Risi refuses to involve the Terrans in her daring rescue mission. But Marius Steel and his brilliant son Asher will not stand aside. Drawn to Risi’s strength and quiet resolve, they join her in a perilous chase across the stars.
Together they must face merciless enemies—the nightmarish mechanical constructs that hold the alien’s uploaded minds—and forge an alliance strong enough to bring the Xarians home…or see both their worlds consumed.
Book Two in the Syndicate of Stars novels takes place on Astraeus (or Xari) seven years after A Corruption of Memory, in which Marius Steel saves his son, Asher, and other Terran children from a malicious genetic edit unleashed by his own father.
No prior knowledge of that book required!"

Length: 108k words

The meeting will be on Discord: https://discord.gg/CXsczTH

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