WINNING, REDEFINED.
On the orbital Ring, solar sails ride the Sun's breath through a Corridor that answers to character as much as calculus. Captain Zuri and the Heliograph crew learn a new physics: pressure follows consented vectors, Shadefall stops wars before they start, and the fastest line is the one that keeps your neighbor.
When an envoy invites them
Further
, the race spills earthward. Councils, welders, ward nurses, students, and kitchens come aboard, throwing Crowns and Spirals that open "Minor Doors" for real lives. The Braid becomes a culture-teachable, fixable, contagious.
From flare-mouth sprints to a ground-led passage conducted entirely from below,
Sunship Regatta
is a shimmering, human-scale space epic about making rooms kinder at speed. If you loved the heart of
Becky Chambers
, the civic care of
Ursula K. Le Guin
, and the bright math of
hard SF
, this is your next passage.