Her Scales Shine Like Music by Rajnar Vajra

Her Scales Shine Like Music by Rajnar Vajra
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Short Story (37 pages)
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Reviewed by Astilbe

“Her Scales Shine Like Music” by Rajnar Vajra is a moving science fiction novelette about an encounter and budding relationship between two aliens, one human, who are the only living creatures occupying a planet in deep space. The human is assigned to guard a valuable find, while his colleagues leave, to file a report with the company that hired them.

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Some of my favorite scenes were the ones that slowly revealed Poet’s backstory and explained why and how this character had ended up alone on a planet that was only habitable for humans in the short term. While I think it’s best to leave all of those revelations up to other readers to discover for themselves, I sure did enjoy the process of gradually piecing all of this information together as I tried to figure out what might happen to this character in the future.

The ending felt abrupt and confusing to me. There were so many unanswered questions about Poet, the main character, the nature of their work, and his relationship with the alien they met while exploring a new planet. I didn’t require answers for all of them, but I would have understood the final scene much better if at least some of them had been better explained to the audience.

It was interesting to me to see how much Poet was able to figure out about their new alien friend despite the fact that they couldn’t speak to each other. In fact, I wasn’t ever even sure if their buddy understood spoken language as a concept at all! This made their attempts at communication even more special than they might have otherwise been. There were so many obstacles in their path as they tried to get to know each other, and yet neither of them wanted to give up until they’d found some way to get across to each other.

I’d recommend Her Scales Shine Like Music to anyone who loves science fiction set on other planets.