From the Bookshelf of Space Opera Fans …

Astray (The Adventures of a Xeno-Archaeologist, #1)

Jenny Schwartz

Start date: February 1, 2024

Finish date: March 1, 2024

Discussion: BOTM LIMITED

Find A Copy At

Group Discussions About This Book

Showing 2 of 29 topics — 278 comments total

BOTM LIMITED

July 2024 LIMITED Master Walk by Lee and Miller
By Teresa , Plan B is in Effect · 6 posts · 16 views

last updated Jun 13, 2024 01:57PM

May 2024 LIMITED Preferred Seating by Lee and Miller
By Teresa , Plan B is in Effect · 12 posts · 22 views

last updated Apr 20, 2024 06:50PM

showing 2 of 2 topics view all »

What Members Thought

Jun 28, 2021 Jo rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: series, science-fiction, science-fiction-romance

I started out confused but things did make sense as I kept reading. After the confusing the story really took off. Nora Deviis a great character and I loved meeting her. Captain Liam Kimani is in disgrace and out on the border. He and Nora meet briefly as both arrive on station. Then things happen and they are thrown together as the plot thickens. Great start to a new series. Looking forward to book 2.

1 like · Like · see review

Jan 19, 2024 Betsy rated it liked it

Shelves: space, fiction, future, owned, recent-reads

[27 Jan 2025]
The subtitle of this series is a little misleading. Although the heroine is trained as a xeno-archaeologist, that's not what she does. She flies around the galaxy in her one-person ship mapping space and occasionally testing for exploitable resources. Something happened to her in her earlier life -- partly this was the death of her husband, but I think there was more to it -- that left her angry and generally distrustful of other people. But her meeting with Liam and his crew who ha ...more

Like · see review