--- product_id: 103389218 title: "Ancestral Night (White Space Book 1)" price: "฿1200" currency: THB in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/103389218-ancestral-night-white-space-book-1 store_origin: TH region: Thailand --- # Ancestral Night (White Space Book 1) **Price:** ฿1200 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Ancestral Night (White Space Book 1) - **How much does it cost?** ฿1200 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.th](https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/103389218-ancestral-night-white-space-book-1) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Ancestral Night (White Space Book 1) - Kindle edition by Bear, Elizabeth. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Ancestral Night (White Space Book 1). Review: Action with intellect...awesome! - I read the reviews and almost did not read this book. I am SO glad I ignored them. This was a fantastic book: sci fi in the best tradition. It explores possible political and social constructs through a person who was used, then psychologically and emotionally damaged by them. One has to actually understand the basis of the structures to follow the experience for the character and to understand her arrival at her personal healing. And all this internal drama takes place embedded in an adventure story that is part action and part psychological thriller. I actually feel sorry for people who panned this book as boring. I expect they are people who prefer the short serial stories so popular now. This is a true book...it is not a chapter, it is not a part...it is a complete story that delves into the psychology and sociology of a future version of our galaxy. The character development is excellent for a first person perspective...the main character has opinions about other characters, but isn’t omniscient in her understanding beyond what has been shared. She is not perfect...she is not a super model, she is not a genius, she is a regular person who is winging it through life like the rest of us, and then thrown into extraordinary circumstances. The “universe” the author has created is rich with varied life and is an interesting place that has room for many more stories! The book does leave some big questions in that universe unexplained, so I hope this is not the last story. This is a deep and thoughtful book, and I hope others enjoy it as much as I did. If you are looking for a quick read with nonstop action and little depth and introspection, this book is not for you. There are fun reads, then there are books like this that have fun, but also engage the intellect, which is a different kind of fun that is becoming too rare, in my opinion. My thanks to the author! Review: Not just Space Opera, Really Good, Hard SF Edged Big Idea Space Opera - Elizabeth Bear has created a new universe for space opera to flourish that' full of cultural texture, solid characters, and inevitable conflict. The crew of the salvage tug Singer, two humans and an AI working its way out of "instantiation debt" are barely making ends meet when they come across the find of a lifetime - an massive alien ship with technology beyond that of the Synarche, the galactic civilization that all known sentients belong to. Except for the pirates. And the giant space-going life-forms known as the Ativahikas. Before they can solve the mystery of the derelict the action starts in and suddenly they're on the run with alien technology that could change the face of the galaxy. And incidentally, the ships AI has been called in for the galactic equivalent of jury duty, spending a term participating in running the Synarche. Station masters colluding with pirates, war crimes kept secret, and the emergent backstories of the characters all build up a well-textured story, and the basis for further explorations in the White Space Universe. The author does tend to get distracted by the world she's created, sharing details on the politics, technology, and culture of her universe in a way that slows things down at the start, but it's Big Idea SF and anyway things pick up pretty quickly, and as I've intimated, she's building the foundation for a universe that will support more than one story. She's managed the most important step here, introducing us to a trio of engaging characters: Haimey the main character and salvage engineer, who shares some character DNA with the Expanse's Naomi Ngata, Connla, a pilot, gender-indifferent skirt chaser, and strategy game aficionado, and Singer, a shipbrain with a passion for political theory. If you're a fan of James S. A. Corey, Alistair Reynolds, Ian Banks, Jack McDevitt, or really, anyone who does really good space opera, you should enjoy this and look forward to more White Space books to come. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B07GNRVY7J | | Accessibility | Learn more | | Best Sellers Rank | #62,817 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #196 in First Contact Science Fiction (Books) #308 in First Contact Science Fiction eBooks #668 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Kindle Store) | | Book 1 of 3 | White Space | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (3,341) | | Edition | Reprint ed. | | Enhanced typesetting | Enabled | | File size | 3.4 MB | | ISBN-13 | 978-1534403000 | | Language | English | | Page Flip | Enabled | | Print length | 513 pages | | Publication date | March 5, 2019 | | Publisher | S&S/Saga Press | | Screen Reader | Supported | | Word Wise | Enabled | | X-Ray | Enabled | ## Images ![Ancestral Night (White Space Book 1) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71FGaA3XSlL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Action with intellect...awesome! *by R***I on June 20, 2019* I read the reviews and almost did not read this book. I am SO glad I ignored them. This was a fantastic book: sci fi in the best tradition. It explores possible political and social constructs through a person who was used, then psychologically and emotionally damaged by them. One has to actually understand the basis of the structures to follow the experience for the character and to understand her arrival at her personal healing. And all this internal drama takes place embedded in an adventure story that is part action and part psychological thriller. I actually feel sorry for people who panned this book as boring. I expect they are people who prefer the short serial stories so popular now. This is a true book...it is not a chapter, it is not a part...it is a complete story that delves into the psychology and sociology of a future version of our galaxy. The character development is excellent for a first person perspective...the main character has opinions about other characters, but isn’t omniscient in her understanding beyond what has been shared. She is not perfect...she is not a super model, she is not a genius, she is a regular person who is winging it through life like the rest of us, and then thrown into extraordinary circumstances. The “universe” the author has created is rich with varied life and is an interesting place that has room for many more stories! The book does leave some big questions in that universe unexplained, so I hope this is not the last story. This is a deep and thoughtful book, and I hope others enjoy it as much as I did. If you are looking for a quick read with nonstop action and little depth and introspection, this book is not for you. There are fun reads, then there are books like this that have fun, but also engage the intellect, which is a different kind of fun that is becoming too rare, in my opinion. My thanks to the author! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not just Space Opera, Really Good, Hard SF Edged Big Idea Space Opera *by E***Y on March 7, 2019* Elizabeth Bear has created a new universe for space opera to flourish that' full of cultural texture, solid characters, and inevitable conflict. The crew of the salvage tug Singer, two humans and an AI working its way out of "instantiation debt" are barely making ends meet when they come across the find of a lifetime - an massive alien ship with technology beyond that of the Synarche, the galactic civilization that all known sentients belong to. Except for the pirates. And the giant space-going life-forms known as the Ativahikas. Before they can solve the mystery of the derelict the action starts in and suddenly they're on the run with alien technology that could change the face of the galaxy. And incidentally, the ships AI has been called in for the galactic equivalent of jury duty, spending a term participating in running the Synarche. Station masters colluding with pirates, war crimes kept secret, and the emergent backstories of the characters all build up a well-textured story, and the basis for further explorations in the White Space Universe. The author does tend to get distracted by the world she's created, sharing details on the politics, technology, and culture of her universe in a way that slows things down at the start, but it's Big Idea SF and anyway things pick up pretty quickly, and as I've intimated, she's building the foundation for a universe that will support more than one story. She's managed the most important step here, introducing us to a trio of engaging characters: Haimey the main character and salvage engineer, who shares some character DNA with the Expanse's Naomi Ngata, Connla, a pilot, gender-indifferent skirt chaser, and strategy game aficionado, and Singer, a shipbrain with a passion for political theory. If you're a fan of James S. A. Corey, Alistair Reynolds, Ian Banks, Jack McDevitt, or really, anyone who does really good space opera, you should enjoy this and look forward to more White Space books to come. ### ⭐⭐⭐ A big story, a lot if characters, & some digressions *by H***A on March 28, 2019* This is a BIG book, it's 499 pages, but it also has big ideas, a huge number of characters, & at least one ginormous AI sort of thingy (I truly don't know what it is but it's apparently the size of a red dwarf star). The protagonist, Haimey, is an engineer of an AI (not the above thingy), aided but human piloted salvage ship with 2 cats for along for the ride. I really liked parts of this, but I really didn't like some of the long, drawn-out philosophical digressions that Haimey indulged in, & the info dumps were not always felicitously handled. I also was uncomfortable with the amount of brutality involved, some of which seemed gratuitous, as in more for shock value, rather that plot points. It is an interesting world with so many different types of beings like a pink dolphin-like doctor & my favorite, a praying mantis lawman, most of whom belong to the governing Synarche, the rest are either pirates or Freeporters, & I am not clear on the difference between the two, except that the latter murders & disects 'star dragons - huge, sapient beings who travel through space along with everyone else who isn't on a planet. It has some great, exciting parts to the story, but is also has pages & pages that I skimmed through. I truly think it could be 100 pages shorter with no detriment to the plot. This is supposed to be book 1 of a trilogy, & I will wait to see the reviews on the next one before I decide buy it. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/103389218-ancestral-night-white-space-book-1](https://www.desertcart.co.th/products/103389218-ancestral-night-white-space-book-1) --- *Product available on Desertcart Thailand* *Store origin: TH* *Last updated: 2026-05-04*