"These Broken Stars" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/

First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first
contact young adult series. I read the well printed and well bound
trade paperback published by Little, Brown and Company in 2014 that I
bought new from Amazon. I have purchased the following two books in the
series and will be reading them soon.

10,000 years in the future, the Icarus is the most magnificent of the
millions of spaceships in the human's fleet. Carrying 50,000+ crew and
passengers, she had an enormous ballroom and was the fastest of all,
taking only weeks to traverse between the thousands of terraformed
planets in hyperspace what took centuries to traverse in normal space.
Personally designed by the great spaceship builder, Roderick LaRoux, she
housed the many tens of thousands of crew and passengers in comfort,
even housing a permanent staff of news reporters.

But, even the Icarus is subject to the rules of nature when her
hyperspace engines suddenly fail, restart, fail, restart, and fail
again. As the crew and passengers are told to go to the lifepods, only
a single pod makes it off the huge ship before it crashes into an
unknown terraformed planet. That lifepod made it off since Lilac
LaRoux, the daughter of Roderick LaRoux, knew how to bypass the timing
for the hyperspace window to settle down first for safety. Lilac and
Major Tarver Merendsen are the only survivors on a planet without any
other people. Or, are they alone ?

There is a website for the series at:
http://thesebrokenstars.com/

My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,205 reviews)

Lynn

On 5/26/2023 11:59 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "These Broken Stars" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
>    https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/
>
> First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first
> contact young adult series.

Wow, those sub-genre titles are getting long....

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On 5/26/2023 5:52 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 5/26/2023 11:59 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> "These Broken Stars" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
>>     https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/
>>
>> First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first
>> contact young adult series.
>
> Wow, those sub-genre titles are getting long....

Yeah, I left a few out to make it fit on one line. Paranormal,
suspenseful, death, shocking, abusive, etc.

Lynn

On 5/26/2023 4:31 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 5/26/2023 5:52 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> On 5/26/2023 11:59 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> "These Broken Stars" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
>>>
>>> https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/
>>>
>>> First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first
>>> contact young adult series.
>>
>> Wow, those sub-genre titles are getting long....
>
> Yeah, I left a few out to make it fit on one line.  Paranormal,
> suspenseful, death, shocking, abusive, etc.
>
The book is shorter than its sub-genre definition.

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On Friday, 26 May 2023 at 19:59:59 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "These Broken Stars" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
> https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/
>
> First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first
> contact young adult series. I read the well printed and well bound
> trade paperback published by Little, Brown and Company in 2014 that I
> bought new from Amazon. I have purchased the following two books in the
> series and will be reading them soon.
>
> 10,000 years in the future, the Icarus

Oh come on. Is that discussed at all?

> is the most magnificent of the
> millions of spaceships in the human's fleet. Carrying 50,000+ crew and
> passengers, she had an enormous ballroom and was the fastest of all,
> taking only weeks to traverse between the thousands of terraformed
> planets in hyperspace what took centuries to traverse in normal space.
> Personally designed by the great spaceship builder, Roderick LaRoux, she
> housed the many tens of thousands of crew and passengers in comfort,
> even housing a permanent staff of news reporters.
>
> But, even the Icarus is subject to the rules of nature when her
> hyperspace engines suddenly fail, restart, fail, restart, and fail
> again.

Nature? More like Murphy's Law.

> As the crew and passengers are told to go to the lifepods, only
> a single pod makes it off the huge ship before it crashes into an
> unknown terraformed planet.

Ouch. I suppose that's why they were in a hurry to
restart the engines. If there's any way to know, now.

So do the ballroom and the onboard journalists
actually do anything? Assuming that this really was
a fatal disaster and not The Squire of Gothos playing
at made-up planets again, which may be, for instance,
conveniently hollow. Like Magrathea. Maybe the Squire
wants a dance. I know I'm in bad taste if everyone's dead.

> That lifepod made it off since Lilac
> LaRoux, the daughter of Roderick LaRoux, knew how to bypass the timing
> for the hyperspace window to settle down first for safety. Lilac and
> Major Tarver Merendsen are the only survivors on a planet without any
> other people. Or, are they alone ?

I assume that a planet is "terraformed" because
somebody terraformed it, probably because they
like Terra. So I expect there's a landlord at least.
Like Magrathea. Or like Trek's "Shore Leave".

> There is a website for the series at:
> http://thesebrokenstars.com/
>
> My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
> Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,205 reviews)
>
> Lynn

On 2023-05-27 6:16 a.m., Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Friday, 26 May 2023 at 19:59:59 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> "These Broken Stars" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
>> https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/
>>
>> First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first
>> contact young adult series. I read the well printed and well bound
>> trade paperback published by Little, Brown and Company in 2014 that I
>> bought new from Amazon. I have purchased the following two books in the
>> series and will be reading them soon.
>>
>> 10,000 years in the future, the Icarus
>
> Oh come on. Is that discussed at all?

The author thought calling it the "Titanic" was too on the nose.

On 5/27/2023 7:11 PM, David Johnston wrote:
> On 2023-05-27 6:16 a.m., Robert Carnegie wrote:
>> On Friday, 26 May 2023 at 19:59:59 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> "These Broken Stars" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
>>> https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/
>>>
>>> First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first
>>> contact young adult series. I read the well printed and well bound
>>> trade paperback published by Little, Brown and Company in 2014 that I
>>> bought new from Amazon. I have purchased the following two books in the
>>> series and will be reading them soon.
>>>
>>> 10,000 years in the future, the Icarus
>>
>> Oh come on.  Is that discussed at all?
>
> The author thought calling it the "Titanic" was too on the nose.

I was thinking "Titanic II".

Very little of the book is actually spent in the Icarus. It just opens
the book for us and provides the initial struggle. Then it provides a
tomb for the 49,998+ dead people that Lilac robs supplies from when
Tarver gets severely hurt. After all, a ship capable of holding 50,000+
people has a "boatload" of supplies.

Lynn

On 5/27/2023 7:16 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Friday, 26 May 2023 at 19:59:59 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> "These Broken Stars" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
>> https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/
>>
>> First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first
>> contact young adult series. I read the well printed and well bound
>> trade paperback published by Little, Brown and Company in 2014 that I
>> bought new from Amazon. I have purchased the following two books in the
>> series and will be reading them soon.
>>
>> 10,000 years in the future, the Icarus
>
> Oh come on. Is that discussed at all?
>
>> is the most magnificent of the
>> millions of spaceships in the human's fleet. Carrying 50,000+ crew and
>> passengers, she had an enormous ballroom and was the fastest of all,
>> taking only weeks to traverse between the thousands of terraformed
>> planets in hyperspace what took centuries to traverse in normal space.
>> Personally designed by the great spaceship builder, Roderick LaRoux, she
>> housed the many tens of thousands of crew and passengers in comfort,
>> even housing a permanent staff of news reporters.
>>
>> But, even the Icarus is subject to the rules of nature when her
>> hyperspace engines suddenly fail, restart, fail, restart, and fail
>> again.
>
> Nature? More like Murphy's Law.
>
>> As the crew and passengers are told to go to the lifepods, only
>> a single pod makes it off the huge ship before it crashes into an
>> unknown terraformed planet.
>
> Ouch. I suppose that's why they were in a hurry to
> restart the engines. If there's any way to know, now.
>
> So do the ballroom and the onboard journalists
> actually do anything? Assuming that this really was
> a fatal disaster and not The Squire of Gothos playing
> at made-up planets again, which may be, for instance,
> conveniently hollow. Like Magrathea. Maybe the Squire
> wants a dance. I know I'm in bad taste if everyone's dead.
>
>> That lifepod made it off since Lilac
>> LaRoux, the daughter of Roderick LaRoux, knew how to bypass the timing
>> for the hyperspace window to settle down first for safety. Lilac and
>> Major Tarver Merendsen are the only survivors on a planet without any
>> other people. Or, are they alone ?
>
> I assume that a planet is "terraformed" because
> somebody terraformed it, probably because they
> like Terra. So I expect there's a landlord at least.
> Like Magrathea. Or like Trek's "Shore Leave".
>
>> There is a website for the series at:
>> http://thesebrokenstars.com/
>>
>> My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
>> Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,205 reviews)
>>
>> Lynn

Very little of the book is actually spent in the Icarus. It just opens
the book for us and provides the initial struggle. Then it provides a
tomb for the 49,998+ dead people that Lilac robs supplies from when
Tarver gets severely hurt. After all, a ship capable of holding 50,000+
people has a "boatload" of supplies.

I won't say who paid for the terraforming of the planet, that would be a
spoiler. But, there are no humans on the planet before the Icarus
crashes on it.

Lynn

On Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 12:26:12 PM UTC+10, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 5/27/2023 7:11 PM, David Johnston wrote:
> > On 2023-05-27 6:16 a.m., Robert Carnegie wrote:
> >> On Friday, 26 May 2023 at 19:59:59 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> >>> "These Broken Stars" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
> >>> https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/
> >>>
> >>> First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first
> >>> contact young adult series. I read the well printed and well bound
> >>> trade paperback published by Little, Brown and Company in 2014 that I
> >>> bought new from Amazon. I have purchased the following two books in the
> >>> series and will be reading them soon.
> >>>
> >>> 10,000 years in the future, the Icarus
> >>
> >> Oh come on. Is that discussed at all?
> >
> > The author thought calling it the "Titanic" was too on the nose.
> I was thinking "Titanic II".
>
I'm reminded of a Hagar the Horrible cartoon where somebody is writing the name on a ship "The Unsinkable II" and Lucky Eddie asks "what happened to the first one?"

On Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 10:16:50 PM UTC+10, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Friday, 26 May 2023 at 19:59:59 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> > "These Broken Stars" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
> > https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/
> >
> > First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first
> > contact young adult series. I read the well printed and well bound
> > trade paperback published by Little, Brown and Company in 2014 that I
> > bought new from Amazon. I have purchased the following two books in the
> > series and will be reading them soon.
> >
> > 10,000 years in the future, the Icarus
> Oh come on. Is that discussed at all?

It was that or "Spaceship McSpaceshipface"

In article <c04ad733-e202-45ec-8fb2-e8fa00e6a820n@googlegroups.com>,
Hamish Laws <hamish.laws@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 12:26:12 PM UTC+10, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 5/27/2023 7:11 PM, David Johnston wrote:
>> > On 2023-05-27 6:16 a.m., Robert Carnegie wrote:
>> >> On Friday, 26 May 2023 at 19:59:59 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> >>> "These Broken Stars" by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
>> >>> https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/
>> >>>
>> >>> First book of a three book science fiction space opera romance first
>> >>> contact young adult series. I read the well printed and well bound
>> >>> trade paperback published by Little, Brown and Company in 2014 that I
>> >>> bought new from Amazon. I have purchased the following two books in the
>> >>> series and will be reading them soon.
>> >>>
>> >>> 10,000 years in the future, the Icarus
>> >>
>> >> Oh come on. Is that discussed at all?
>> >
>> > The author thought calling it the "Titanic" was too on the nose.
>> I was thinking "Titanic II".
>>
>I'm reminded of a Hagar the Horrible cartoon where somebody is writing
>the name on a ship "The Unsinkable II" and Lucky Eddie asks "what
>happened to the first one?"

Or the recent D&D movie when the halfling questions the bard's use to the
party and it goes like:

Him: I make the plans.
Her: You already did that, why should we take you?
Him: In case you need a new plan.
Her: So you make plans that don't work?
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