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Deneen and her little brother Charlus are ship-born children growing up in outer space. They live with their parents on an interstellar ship visiting new planets. Unfortunately, the ship's first stop is the planet Maron, a boring desert world inhabited by unintelligent creepy crawly creatures. The crew waits patiently while scientists study the world and its aliens, but Deneen is suspicious. No one pays any attention to the creatures except her and the zoologist, but he spends all his time in the mountains studying them. She starts to become scared of the aliens' glowing red eyes that watch the ship, silent and waiting. With no one to really talk to, she must wait twenty days for the ship to leave the planet and get her as far away from Maron as possible.
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Erika Brickley
1 book5 followersCurrently the host of the Fantaji Podcast, Erika Brickley grew up in small town Iowa surrounded by college culture, nature preserves, and art festivals. From a big family of readers, she became interested in stories about other worlds and cultures at a young age and began crafting her own as soon as she could read and write. Erika loves to travel, holds a Bachelor's degree in Japanese, and devotes her time to her work on the podcast and her next book.
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February 18, 2020
This is not your run of the mill alien sci-fi thriller.
This is a cerebral, thoughtful and, uniquely, hopeful look at the universe. I am not usually one for the sci-fi alien novels, but this one has won me over.
The author helps us to look at ourselves and our society in a new way by means of exploring how an intelligent species on another planet might evolve morally and societally in a completely different way than humanity has. The world she has built and the characters she has crafted make it easy to forget that Maron is not a real place out there in the galaxy. (Who knows, maybe it is...)
I have caught myself thinking about this book often since I first read it. A book that can change the way you look at other living things is a rare find indeed.
This is a cerebral, thoughtful and, uniquely, hopeful look at the universe. I am not usually one for the sci-fi alien novels, but this one has won me over.
The author helps us to look at ourselves and our society in a new way by means of exploring how an intelligent species on another planet might evolve morally and societally in a completely different way than humanity has. The world she has built and the characters she has crafted make it easy to forget that Maron is not a real place out there in the galaxy. (Who knows, maybe it is...)
I have caught myself thinking about this book often since I first read it. A book that can change the way you look at other living things is a rare find indeed.
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