At Galactic Central

Kate MacLeod

Oct 2018 · The Travels of Scout Shannon Book 6 · Ratatoskr Press

About this ebook

Galactic Central, a collection of floating cities in a vast, manmade, planetless cloud. Scout Shannon longed to see it since she first heard of it. This place long represented her shining future.

But in her less shiny present, she reaches it by smuggling herself aboard a cargo ship and hides in the lower sewer-like levels of the most opulent of the floating cities. Teams of girl assassins still hunt her. Worse, her friends are in danger and don't even know.

Scout has to save her friends, because saving her friends means saving her entire planet from enslavement to the Tajaki trade dynasty. Caught between two sides of that dynasty, with a mysterious third party desperate to remove her from the galaxy, Scout is in way over her head. But with her friends, she just might see a path to victory for all of them.

"At Galactic Central" the sixth and final book in "The Travels of Scout Shannon" series, a young adult science fiction novel for fans of plucky heroines, girl assassins, political intrigue, and loyal dog sidekicks.

Ratings and reviews

I enjoyed this whole series and would overall give it 5 stars, but I have to say, if this is intended to be the last of the Scout Shannon books, there are some serious loose ends! Shi let herself be taken pretty easily... but how did she get lightning gun powers? Who is Augustus, is he pulling the strings here, or did I miss something? Will Jun be punished? Is Sparrow okay? Can the child assassin crew be rehabilitated? I hope to see at least one more book to set my mind at ease.

About the author

Kate MacLeod has written stories which have appeared in Analog, Strange Horizons and Mythic Delirium, among other places. She is also the author of two young adult science fictions series: The Travels of Scout Shannon, and The Ritchie and Fitz Sci-Fi Murder Mysteries. She also contributes to a serialized science fiction podcast called The Tales of the Chai Makhani Trio. She currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can learn more about her work at KateMacLeodWrites.com.