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A review by zaphod46
Crystal Rain by Tobias S. Buckell
3.0
Steampunk. Carribean Steampunk. I like it.
Colonists from a space-faring, but sub jugated, Earth landed on a distant
planet and got caught up in a war between two “local” alien species over who
gets to dominate the planet. The humans used a super-EMP to trap the existing
aliens on the planet and stop the full-scale hostilities.
Over a few hundred years, the aliens set themselves up as gods and the
humans forgot what was going on. All this is learned through flashbacks as the
main character, one of the original colonists who was in stasis in orbit the whole
time, regains his memories and prevents the “evil” aliens from taking over the
whole planet.
Colonists from a space-faring, but sub jugated, Earth landed on a distant
planet and got caught up in a war between two “local” alien species over who
gets to dominate the planet. The humans used a super-EMP to trap the existing
aliens on the planet and stop the full-scale hostilities.
Over a few hundred years, the aliens set themselves up as gods and the
humans forgot what was going on. All this is learned through flashbacks as the
main character, one of the original colonists who was in stasis in orbit the whole
time, regains his memories and prevents the “evil” aliens from taking over the
whole planet.