{"product_id":"navvy-dreams-murray-9798990429802","title":"Navvy Dreams: Tales From a Stinking, Star-Crossed Milky Way, Book One","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe debut of a SPACE OPERA series with the world-building complexity of SUNEATER, the puzzle box mystery of HARROW, and a strong female narrator like Heinlein's FRIDAY.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTAKE A JOB. FALL IN LOVE. TRY NOT TO BLOW UP SUNS.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy name's Polla Ottrava. I'm a registered smuggler and hotshot hyperspace pilot with a navigational symbiote (\"navvy\") implanted in my arm. Its name is Second. With dear Second, I'm the best pilot I know (probably). Without, I'm just a farmgirl from a backwater planet who's moved back in with her folks. Between the lover I abandoned and the crime boss I cheated, I had no choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my twenty-eight years I've made a lot of bad calls, but that's relative, isn't it? I mean, I've never blown up a binary star with space magic. I've never harnessed a fleet of alien ships and used 'em to terrorize perfectly respectable arms dealers, either. I've also never unleashed a shapeshifting biophage, nor ended even one civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe woman who did all that was Ledas-stinking-Starfire. Ledas: the rebel Kamen-lord, spoiled Terran princeling, and failed revolutionary. A year ago, someone killed her. Now her widower's ravaging planets. I guess for revenge. Who cares? This isn't her stinking story...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's MINE.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm Polla Ottrava. I've taken a job I wasn't allowed to refuse. My employers are war criminals who swear they're saving the galaxy. They say I'm the only one who can fly their bloodship. They say we're heroes. They say they'll pay me. They say a lot of crap.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly some of it's true...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e***\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIN HER OWN WORDS...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI knew they were liars from the start, so why didn't I run? No high-minded reason. Sympathy for Lieutenant Navigator Sai? Of course. Sympathy... and attraction. But he'd made his bed, and I had no illusions about saving him from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo why didn't I run? You've never asked, you cannot ask, but I imagine you asking all the same, you with your cold voice and your unrelenting, useless logic: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Why didn't you run? You owed them nothing. Even then, you knew they were liars, deserters, and thieves.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn't think. That's it. That's the entire reason. I. Didn't. Think--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Murray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798990429802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hmh Murray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001","brand":"Murray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520560083199,"sku":"9798990429802","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0ab0610a-b776-4848-973f-fe50112f3e98.jpg?v=1778742351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/navvy-dreams-murray-9798990429802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}