In addition to the Reverend Mother, there are three sisters who provide a viewpoint on the action. The Reverend Mother is also, however, in the early stages of some form of dementia, which her sisters have so far been able to avoid acknowledging.
The Reverend Mother – under a vow of silence since her novitiate – is willing to let the sisters argue for a little longer. The sisters cannot agree whether this is theologically, doctrinally, or morally acceptable. The living ship is in a situation unbecoming to a convent: it wants to breed. Rita as they debate how to respond to their living ship’s current status. We first meet the sisters of the Order of St. There are plenty of good works to accomplish, regardless: the massively destructive war between Earth and its colonies may have been over for a generation, but its wake made more work, not less, for mendicant orders. They seem to be a mendicant order, more focused on the care of bodies than the care of souls, for whom any apostolic or evangelising sense of mission is decidedly secondary to doing good in the present world. Rita, (who don’t appear to be connected to any wider order, and seem to have no connections to a motherhouse) dwell aboard the living ship Our Lady of Impossible Constellations.
Sisters of the Vast Black does indeed contain nuns, lesbians, living ships, and murderous conspiracies, wrapped up in a quiet, character-focused story about faith, growth, and the nature of moral and political authority.Ī small convent of Catholic nuns, the Order of St. The words used to engage my attention were “nuns, lesbians, living ships, and murderous political conspiracies,” and that definitely worked, so maybe I should have heard of Lina Rather before. I’d never heard of Lina Rather before I was informed I should keep an eye out for Sisters of the Vast Black. Sisters of the Vast Black, Lina Rather ( Tor.com Publishing 978-5-3, $14.99, 170pp, tp) October 2019.
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