Steel Frame by Andrew Skinner

Steel Frame by Andrew Skinner

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Summary

Rook is a Jockey, a soldier trained to fly ‘Shells,’ huge robots that fight for the edge of settled space. When her squad is overrun and killed, Rook is imprisoned, left scarred and broken. Hollow and helpless without her steel frame, she’s ready to call it quits.

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Steel Frame by Andrew Skinner

Epic tale of giant-robot battles, built around a personal story of redemption and healing. Fly Hard. Rook is a jockey, a soldier trained and modified to fly `shells,' huge robots that fight for the outer regions of settled space. When her shell is destroyed and her squad killed, Rook is imprisoned, left stranded, scarred and broken. Hollow and helpless without her steel frame, she's ready to call it quits. When her cohort of prisoners are sold into indenture to NorCol, a vast frontier corporation, Rook's given another shell – a near-decrepit Juno, as broken as she is and decades older – and sent to a rusting bucket of a ship on the end of known space to patrol something called "the Eye," a strange, unnerving permanent storm in space. But they're not alone.
Andrew Skinner grew up in South Africa’s coal-mining heartland, amidst orange dust and giant machinery. He now works as an archaeologist and anthropologist, interested in folklore, rain-making arts, and resistance; but the machines aren’t done with him yet. Steel Frame is his first novel.
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ISBN 13 9781781087053
ISBN 10 1781087059
Title Steel Frame
Author Andrew Skinner
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Rebellion Publishing Ltd.
Year published 2019-08-22
Number of pages 700
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.