They have to make sense of what constitutes “life”, and thus, vicariously, so does the reader.Īs a result, the novel is a blend of Hard Science Fiction and (highly) Speculative Science Fiction, and as Chambers explains in the Acknowledgements, “…I am not a scientist. Sections of the novella are expository (but smoothly blended into the plot) since the characters are on a scientific mission, and Chambers uses their dialogues to create contrasts and disparities between their knowledge and understanding as humans from Earth in the far distant future, and the difficult and mystifying conditions that they encounter on new planets. Rather, ideas from the book quietly linger in your mind for long afterwards, leading you to increase your appreciation of it over time. I was in no rush to review it, since it is not the sort of novel that makes you want to immediately express your reactions in a review filled with strong feelings and exclamation marks.
It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards for Science Fiction in 2019 since the Kindle edition came out in August 2019, but it took me a few months to get to read it. This slim volume of connected stories was published in hardcover in Jan.
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