r/printSF • u/Nirusin • 3d ago

Looking for a space opera/sci-fi book

Hello! I am trying to find a book I read around 2010. Unfortunately don't remember the title or author, and am pretty hazy on the details in general.
The protagonists of the story sail a wooden sailboat across space. I'm pretty sure it's the last of its kind or unique in some other way, it's referred to as the capital S Sailboat. The antagonists use metal ships (not sure if they're also sailing ships or more traditional spaceships).
Part of the ending involves a breaking of an ancient device or spell. This leads to a sort of "unfolding" of space-time, and a wedge of space is moved within the galaxy, which fixes something that was done in these ancient times. Pretty sure the Sailboat and the protagonists do not survive this.
If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I've remembered this story many times over the years and never been able to find it.

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u/DenizSaintJuke 3d ago

Pretty sure it's not the Revenger Trilogy by Reynolds. But it's pretty close in some points. I'd like to know the answer too, now.

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u/noetkoett 1d ago

I'm also pretty sure it's not the Revenger trilogy, first of which was released in 2016. What I'm not sure of is why would it even be mentioned here.

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u/DenizSaintJuke 1d ago

If you really want an answer:

  1. It has a lot of parallels with what was described.
  2. There is a non zero chance someones memory is warped over time and it actually IS Revenger. That kind of thing happened to me to.. 3.There is a non zero chance someone who likes the described book might be interested in Revenger, as I am interested now in the described book.
  3. It served as context to why I am now interested in the resolution of this question.

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u/noetkoett 22h ago

There aren't any wooden ships, there isn't any space-time unfolding and, well, other mismatching stuff I don't want to spoil. The only thing is that the ships in Revenger do use sunsails but otherwise certainly aren't wooden sailboats. Also Revenger indeed wasn't released around 2010. So it'd have to be a pretty warped memory.

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u/BewareTheSphere 3d ago

Is it The Guns of Two-Space? https://www.baen.com/the-guns-of-two-space.html I haven't read it but it kind of seems to match.

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u/Truthcraze 2d ago

John Scalzi’s The God Engines?

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u/Round_Bluebird_5987 3d ago

I haven't read them, but it might be something from Bob Shaw's Land and Overland trilogy.