An Unkindness of Ghosts
- 340
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“An Unkindness of Ghosts” recreates the antebellum South aboard a generation ship, in a story both sweeping and intensely personal. Some readers praise the prose and the world-building, yet set the book aside because of how dark it is. Others need the first twenty-odd pages to settle in, and some report that it gains on a second reading.
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About the book
An Unkindness of Ghosts is a 2017 science fiction novel by Rivers Solomon, exploring the conjunction between structural racism and generation ships. Solomon's first book, it was published by Akashic Books.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 188 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 56% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.7 | 7 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 181 | 96% |
Frequently asked
How long is An Unkindness of Ghosts?
It has 340 pages — shorter than 72% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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