![]() ![]() (Eva Innocente has a Dark Past, but unlike so many of literature’s Dark Pasts, it’s not lovingly dwelled on and brooded over – it’s only mentioned occasionally as explanation for some of her skills and attitudes.) ![]() Her cargoes are small and her profits even smaller, ever since she broke with her not-exactly-all-aboveboard father and the crew of smugglers and mercenaries she used to run with. ![]() Part of me wishes I’d already read Chilling Effect, her debut space opera novel, at that point, because I’d like to ask how many of the little things that look like nods to Mass Effect and the likes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are there on purpose, and how many are the product of a shared cultural moment and shared sensibilities.Ĭaptain Eva Innocente has a ship, La Sirena Negra, and a small crew. I met Valerie Valdes briefly at the Dublin 2019 Worldcon. ![]()
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