A review by octavia_cade
The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss

5.0

A thoughtful, interesting novel. Quite slow, but I don't mean that negatively - there's a sort of dreamy pacing that goes well with the temporary nature of migration, the doomed setting of the life that's made on the ship. It's a good life too, but it can't last - though I can't help wondering how the Quaker settlers, so steeped in ecological holism, justify what must be the wholesale slaughter of the lives they've nurtured - the ecosystem aboard the Dusty Miller surely won't survive the new frigidity of life planet-side. They discuss everything else in an attempt to reach consensus, but never this. I kept waiting for it...