After more than 130 years in space, the colony ship Archimedes is approaching its destination. As an officer-in-training, Ravi McLeod is one of those preparing the ship for Braking Day, the day cycle on which the ship will flip its thrusters and fire them up — basically, hitting the brakes on their decades-long drift. As he's preparing a remote area, however, Ravi comes across a mysterious un-spacesuited girl floating outside the airlock, and as he sees her again and again, he begins to suspect that he's either going crazy or his cybernetic implants have been hacked. Either way, it's not good for Ravi, the first of his family to break from the criminal life and seek a legit life on Archimedes.
It's hard to describe everything that happens in this book without giving away some major plot details, but the plot is not really where Oyebanji shines. What he's done amazingly well is create a lived-in complex society on the ship, with believable class differences and criminal elements, a water-based economy, and a realistic maintenance schedule for the ship. It's so well done that it's hard for me to believe this is a debut novel. Can't wait to read more from him!
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