My only real criticism of what is a stunning and inventive novel is that the timeline of the history feels too compressed for my taste. Stacia Chikeke, captain of the starship Cypher, will face down enemies across the stars, and within her own vessel, as she searches for the answers that could save them all. Sweep of Stars is a big space opera, and it needs to be, to contain everything that Broaddus’ strong and deep ambition is trying to make it become. In the fire to come they will face down their greatest struggle yet.Īmachi Adisa and other young leaders will contend with each other for the power to galvanize their people and chart the next course for the empire.įela Buhari and her elite unit will take the fight to regions not seen by human eyes, but no training will be enough to bring them all home. But the old powers could not allow them to thrive and have now set in motion new plots to destroy all that they've built. With the wisdom of their ancestors, the leadership of their elders, the power and vision of their scientists and warriors they charted a course to a better future. Freeing themselves from the endless wars and oppression of their home planet in order to shape their own futures and create a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretched from Earth and Mars to Titan. The Muungano empire strived and struggled to form a utopia when they split away from old earth. Like energy we are neither created nor destroyed, though many try.'-West African Proverb 'The beauty in blackness is its ability to transform. (original earth) to Titan – as it faces an escalating series of threats. Epic in scope and intimate in voice, it follows members of the Muungano empire – a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretches from O.E.

Maurice Broaddus's Sweep of Stars is the first in the Astra Black trilogy that explores the struggles of an empire.

Sweep of Stars by Maurice Broaddus