What were the challenges of creating such a stubborn (and occasionally wrong) character? Vashti Loren is a complex and flawed character, and she isn’t always likable. Here, Reed discusses her literary influences, “military” science fiction, and Enhanced Persons. With its mixture of military and ecological sci-fi tropes, Reed's novel is garnering comparisons to greats like Ursula K. She is also a survivor of a brutal attack from an earlier military operation, one in which her husband - the de-facto colony leader - was murdered. Loren and her young daughter are part of the second wave of colonists sent to study the planet while a large portion of humanity still lives on space stations, waiting for the green light to start populating the new world. Ubastis is an unspoiled paradise with a robust ecosystem. Set in the far future on a newly colonized world, Archangel is the first-person narrative of Vashti Loren, a xenobiologist. Marguerite Reed’s Archangel is the first in a projected series called the Chronicles of Ubastis.
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