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msjenne's review
4.0
I loved the premise of this book--what if instead of abducting people, the aliens asked for volunteers? Would you go? I think I would go.
ericlawton's review
4.0
In this scifi novel, thousands of people volunteer to join an alien space craft as it travels past the earth, en route to places unknown. The passengers must learn how to interact with the ship and each other, in order to get food and other essential supplies.
Slightly more of the main characters are women, and women's perspectives such as dealing with male violence are given suitable prominence.
Several of the characters are scientists, male and female in equal proportion and skill level, and the book deals with the interplay of scientific method and knowledge with the human skills needed to organise a new society from scratch, or at least from small groups andisolated individuals, who have many different ideas on how things should be organised.
The writing is fairly plain but I always found myself wanting to know what happens next. Recommended.
AIthough the underlying theme is space travel, the science is not related to that. Mostly the small-scale physics, chemistry, biology (including medicine) and social sciences needed for survival in a strange environment.
Slightly more of the main characters are women, and women's perspectives such as dealing with male violence are given suitable prominence.
Several of the characters are scientists, male and female in equal proportion and skill level, and the book deals with the interplay of scientific method and knowledge with the human skills needed to organise a new society from scratch, or at least from small groups andisolated individuals, who have many different ideas on how things should be organised.
The writing is fairly plain but I always found myself wanting to know what happens next. Recommended.
AIthough the underlying theme is space travel, the science is not related to that. Mostly the small-scale physics, chemistry, biology (including medicine) and social sciences needed for survival in a strange environment.
jenne's review
4.0
I loved the premise of this book--what if instead of abducting people, the aliens asked for volunteers? Would you go? I think I would go.
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