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This is swashbuckling science fiction you’ll enjoy immensely, and you’ll find comfort in the fact that there’s a second book in the duology. Based on how this one ends, that second book is necessary.
Amelia Radcliffe is a scavenger. Because climate change has rendered the United States largely uninhabitable without scavenging things from space, people like Amelia are necessary if people are to live.
Jules Addison is a young man who landed on a planet once populated by an ancient civilization who left puzzle and mathematical clues for humans to help them prevent the destruction of their race. He’s crucial to the book because his dad originally decoded broadcasts left by this civilization to warn humans of their pending doom. Jules and Amelia make an unusual team by every measure. She’s the scavenger who landed on the planet to find things of value that she can return to Earth to ransom her little sister from a life of drudgery and horror. He’s the academic who wants to study things and preserve the treasure he finds for future generations.
But it is this odd pairing that makes the book fun. Amelia is a fiercely strong independent young woman with real street smarts. He’s the bookish genius who will fail and die without her. But she needs him to decode the messages they find as they explore the ancient structures built by that alien civilization.
I thoroughly enjoyed both the book and its narration. Alex McKenna exhibited a bit too much vocal fry to suit me, but it didn’t render the book unreadable. Steve West was the perfect Jules Addison with that British accent that was real indeed.
Amelia Radcliffe is a scavenger. Because climate change has rendered the United States largely uninhabitable without scavenging things from space, people like Amelia are necessary if people are to live.
Jules Addison is a young man who landed on a planet once populated by an ancient civilization who left puzzle and mathematical clues for humans to help them prevent the destruction of their race. He’s crucial to the book because his dad originally decoded broadcasts left by this civilization to warn humans of their pending doom. Jules and Amelia make an unusual team by every measure. She’s the scavenger who landed on the planet to find things of value that she can return to Earth to ransom her little sister from a life of drudgery and horror. He’s the academic who wants to study things and preserve the treasure he finds for future generations.
But it is this odd pairing that makes the book fun. Amelia is a fiercely strong independent young woman with real street smarts. He’s the bookish genius who will fail and die without her. But she needs him to decode the messages they find as they explore the ancient structures built by that alien civilization.
I thoroughly enjoyed both the book and its narration. Alex McKenna exhibited a bit too much vocal fry to suit me, but it didn’t render the book unreadable. Steve West was the perfect Jules Addison with that British accent that was real indeed.