Send It Soaring

by Erika Brickley

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, their first stop is the planet Maron, a boring desert world inhabited by creepy-crawly creatures. Everyone is convinced that they aren't intelligent, but Deneen is suspicious of their glowing red eyes. She feels like they are watching the ship, silent and waiting. With no one to really talk to about her fears, Deneen must wait twenty days for the ship to blast off and get her as far away from the Maronites as possible.

159 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 14, 2020

About the author

Currently 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.

Reviews

[Ariel Worley · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.