Yours Celestially
Genres: Science FictionPublished on November 2, 2023
Pages: 280
Format: eBook Source: Owned
After divorce, death, and having his reformatted soul uploaded into a new body, Sasha expected resurrection to be a fresh start. His time spent in digital Limbo with the program’s cheeky AI guardian angel, Metatron, was cathartic, but what good is a second life when he only sees his daughter on the weekends, he has all the same problems he had before he died, and he can’t seem to shake the ache for the married life he lost?
If that weren’t frustrating enough, a glitch in the program has given Sasha the ability to sense Metatron even outside of Limbo. And Metatron is in love. The angel’s sickly-sweet yearning for one of the souls still in Limbo has turned Sasha’s stomach into caramelized lead. It’s hard enough to move on without someone else’s feelings making the emptiness in his own life even more acute. He didn’t have playing wingman to an actual winged being on his bingo card, but he’s determined to help Metatron make a move on their crush so he can get love off of his mind.
Sasha takes a job with the resurrection company in order to covertly contact Metatron. Except Sasha’s new coworker, Mr. C, keeps showing up at the worst moments. The man is annoying, he’s pushy… and he’s incredibly hot. Sasha can’t decide whether Mr. C wants to blackmail him or be his new BFF, but he seems to know things about Metatron and the resurrection program that Sasha doesn’t. Getting close to him might be the key to solving Sasha’s problem, but if he isn’t careful, he’s going to end up catching feelings of his own.
“Dying has given me indigestion.”
In a near future world, people can get a form of life insurance that has their mind uploaded at the time of death until a new body can be grown for them. People spend a few weeks in Limbo where they are watched over by an AI program called Metatron. He visits them in the spaces that their minds have created for themselves until it is time to download.
The problem is that a few people who have left Limbo and who are in their new bodies are still able to sense Metatron’s feelings. That is impossible. Something is going wrong in Limbo or in the resurrection process.
This is a very cozy, queer-friendly science fiction story. There are two love stories. One is between Metatron and a person in Limbo. The other is between a newly resurrected man named Sasha and his coworker, Mr. C. Sasha is trying to navigate his second life while experiencing Metatron’s feelings as physical symptoms. He’s finding his way back to his ex-wife and daughter’s lives. He’s interacting with his new roommates who desperately want to interact with him.
“Ivan hugs me for so long I have to wrestle away from him, and when I step back, his smile is wide and joyful. Dusty and David look pleased too, and this moment is getting way too mushy and could possibly result in me being talked into going to group pottery classes or a quilting bee if I don’t make a hasty retreat.”
This book is good for people who like their science fiction on the lighter side with more found families and romance and ethical dilemmas than hard core science discussions.
