

Hoffmann confidently layers morality and disability rights into a breezily told adventure that bursts with sheer fun. Talirr into the physics-defying Outside risks Yasira’s sanity-and forces her to decide for herself which “abnormal” lives are worth living. Evianna Talirr, she is forcibly recruited by Akavi Averis, a prickly inquisitor serving Nemesis, god of heretics, to bring Dr. When the reactor’s reality-destabilizing failure hints at interference from Yasira’s vanished graduate supervisor, Dr.

The Shien Reactor is autistic physicist Yasira Shien’s crowning achievement: power for the first human-built space station in a universe where soul-collecting AI gods hoard any technology more advanced than vacuum tubes.

Cosmic horror, grad school politics, and neuroatypicality meet in Hoffmann’s gripping debut, a 28th-century technotheocratic space thriller that blossoms with hope.
