A review by raciethereader
Amid the Crowd of Stars by Stephen Leigh

4.0

I am going with a 4.5 for this fast-paced and immersive read. Earth sends scientists to an alien planet. A ship leaves 400 of them there, but in the meantime earth experiences a disaster that sets back technology making it impossible to return. This book mainly follows Ichiko as she meets the settlers of the planet while her ship is trying to determine how whether life between the two planets is possible. I loved the tie in of Irish culture and the note at the end about the Blasket Islands as I have always been fascinated by them. I am finding that I am loving pure sci fi more than I expected to these days.