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Dropnauts by J. Scott Coatsworth
5.0
Dropnauts is an excellent foray into hard scifi, a bit of cli-fi, and lots of relationships. Although the very beginning starts a little slow, the story soon ramps up and had me finding chances to read. It follows four young people as they discover how Earth has and has not changes since the Collapse a hundred years before, when survivors were forced to live on the moon.
There are some unique storytelling methods here, and although I'm not a great fan of flashbacks, I think they were used will in this story, occasionally dropping into the main story to give us some perspective on why characters are making the choices they do. I love the LGBTQ representation in the book, coming at it from multiple perspectives and ways of thinking.
I also really love the worldbuilding that went into this, and the attention to detail in crafting the AIs that work alongside the humans. We get to see both them and the human characters working through failings to work on the problems that arise on a post-collapse Earth. While this is a good scifi story, it's also a story about challenging yourself and getting past what's stopping you.
There are some unique storytelling methods here, and although I'm not a great fan of flashbacks, I think they were used will in this story, occasionally dropping into the main story to give us some perspective on why characters are making the choices they do. I love the LGBTQ representation in the book, coming at it from multiple perspectives and ways of thinking.
I also really love the worldbuilding that went into this, and the attention to detail in crafting the AIs that work alongside the humans. We get to see both them and the human characters working through failings to work on the problems that arise on a post-collapse Earth. While this is a good scifi story, it's also a story about challenging yourself and getting past what's stopping you.