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A spectacular science fiction debut, Adam Oyebanji’s Braking Day tells a gripping story of a generations-long mission approaching its end, and the prejudices and politics of a community torn between a troubled past and an unknown future. As the three ships of the generation fleet approach ‘Braking Day’ – the point at which they start to decelerate ready to reach their destination at long last – aboard the Interstellar Vehicle Archimedes trainee engineer Ravi MacLeod is being worked harder than ever. Struggling with the requirements of his studies to become an officer and the suspicion of his family towards those of the officer class, Ravi finds himself caught between two worlds. When he starts seeing impossible things he worries that the stress is getting to him, but it soon becomes clear that something strange is going on, and beneath the surface of the fleet there are tensions starting to come to a head.