Boneyards by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Science Fiction

Boneyards continues the story started in Diving into the Wreck and City of Ruins.  I really like this series and Boneyards did not disappoint.  Boss is back and so is the Dignity Vessel and crew she found in the last book.  Coop, the Captain of the Dignity Vessel Ivoire, is looking for clues to location of the Fleet.  He and Boss are exploring the locations of Sector Bases that were under construction when he and his crew got caught in foldspace and sent 5000 years back in time.

Coop wants to find the direction Fleet was traveling and hopes follow even if it will be years and a totally new crew when they catch up with the Fleet.

The Enterran Empire is still trying to find how to build the ancient stealth tech that was on Fleet vessels.  They are looking at everything wrong and keep killing the people doing the research.Ivo  Squishy was once part of that research and wants to put an end to people being accidently killed.  Unknown to Boss she puts together a team to wipe out the Empire’s research.

Both of these actions collide with unexpected results.  This was written so that it could be the last book in the series but I hope it is not.  Boneyards is good old-fashioned space opera.  There is action, suspense, great characters, and wonderful plot lines.  The ending allows for further action or as a resolution for some of the characters.  I will just have to wait and see if there will be further books.

PRY published Boneyards by Kristine Kathryn Rusch in 2012.

Just note – this is another book with a woman in a tank top on the cover.  I guess they think that will help sales.

Waiting On Wednesday (WOW) November 16, 2011

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.


I love the Diving The Wreck series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and a new book Boneyards is scheduled to be released in January of 2011.  I have the book pre-ordered and am eagerly anticipating that release.


"Searching for ancient technology to help her friends find answers to the mystery of their own past, Boss ventures into a place filled with evidence of an ancient space battle, one the Dignity Vessels lost.

Meanwhile, the Enterran Empire keeps accidentally killing its scientists in a quest for ancient stealth tech. Boss’s most difficult friend, Squishy, has had enough. She sneaks into the Empire and destroys its primary stealth tech research base. But an old lover thwarts her escape, and now Squishy needs Boss’s help.

Boss, who is a fugitive in the Empire.  Boss, who knows how to make a Dignity Vessel work. Boss, who knows that Dignity Vessels house the very technology that the Empire is searching for.

Should Boss take a Dignity Vessel to rescue Squishy and risk losing everything to the Empire? Or should Boss continue on her mission for her other friends and let Squishy suffer her own fate?

Filled with battles old and new, scientific dilemmas, and questions about the ethics of friendship, Boneyards looks at the influence of our past on our present and the risks we all take when we meddle in other people’s lives." 

Boneyards is space opera the way it was meant to be: exciting, fast moving, and filled with passion.