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Dropnauts: Liminal Sky: Redemption Cycle Book One Kindle Edition

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Life after the Crash.Over a century after the end of the Earth, life goes on in Redemption, the sole remaining Lunar colony, and possibly the last outpost of humankind in the Solar System. But with an existential threat burrowing its way into the Moon's core, humanity must recolonize the homeworld. Twenty brave dropnauts set off on a mission to explore the empty planet. Four of them—Rai, Hera, Ghost and Tien—have trained for two-and-a-half years for the Return. They're bound for Martinez Base, just outside the Old Earth city of San Francisco. But what awaits them there will turn their assumptions upside down—and in the process, either save or destroy what's left of humanity.

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Redemption is the heart of Lunar society, a city built entirely within a lava tube in the Marius Hills region of the moon - an egalitarian society focused on returning mankind to Earth.

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Martinez Base is the destination for one of the Dropnauts teams, the home to a fabrication plnt that can build new ships to ferry humankind back to a now-empty Earth. But is it really empty?

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"Redemption, perseverance, and identity... Readers will enjoy the diverse cast and high-tech adventure." -Publisher's Weekly

About the Author

Scott lives with his husband Mark in a yellow bungalow in Sacramento. He was indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine. He devoured her library, but as he grew up, he wondered where all the people like him were.He decided that if there weren't queer characters in his favorite genres, he would remake them to his own ends.A Rainbow Award winning author, he runs Queer Sci Fi, QueeRomance Ink, and Other Worlds Ink with Mark, sites that celebrate fiction reflecting queer reality, and is a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08ZLDNK3C
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Other Worlds Ink; 1st edition (May 10, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 10, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5912 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 420 pages

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- #5,013 in LGBTQ+ Fantasy (Kindle Store)
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Scott inhabits the space between the "here and now" and the "what could be". He was shepherded into his love affair with fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine, and soon read her entire library. But as he grew up and read more, he wondered where all the gays were.

He came out as gay at 23, and decided to create the stories he couldn't find at his local bookstore. He reimagined his favorite genres, subverting them and remaking them to his own ends with a universe of diverse characters. And every now and then he hopes someone finds and enjoys them.

His friends say Scott's mind works a little differently - he sees connections between things that many people miss, and accomplishes more in a day than many people do in three.

Scott's fiction subverts expectations and transforms traditional science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary life into something fresh and unexpected. He manages both Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with his husband Mark to promote and celebrate fiction that reflects their worldview, and is an associate member of the Science Fiction Writer's Association (SFWA).

He infuses his work with love, beauty and power, making them soar, and hopes they will change the world, just a little.

Scott was recognized as one of the top new gay authors in the 2017 Rainbow Awards, and his debut novel "Skythane" received two awards and an honorable mention.

Scott lives with his husband of 25 years in Sacramento, California, in a small yellow house with two pink flamingoes in front.

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S. R. Cronin

intriguing story with a hopeful ending

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2021

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Dropnauts is an intriguing story with a hopeful ending, and I have a fond spot for such tales. Though the first chapter throws an exploding spacecraft at the reader, be warned that this isn’t all action. A complex story follows. Stick with it through the build-up as it does sort itself out and soon you’ll be rooting for this unusual cast of four young people as they set foot on what they believe is a planet devoid of human life. It isn’t of course. We’re a more resilient species than that, and much of the story involves these dropnauts coming to terms with the survivors they meet.
Two small things took me out of the story. The dropnauts are barely in their twenties and if I were one of 12,000 surviving humans on a failing moon colony, I’d have sent a more mature group. Also, one pocket of survivors is truly cringe-worthy to an old feminist like me. You'll know what I mean when you encounter them.
However, the book is also packed with things I loved. One favorite was the way the moon colony worked from afar to return Earth to livable status. Another was the intriguing involvement of AI entities. I enjoyed this part so much I would have liked more details.
Do I recommend this book to you? Well, it depends on what you enjoy. I liken this novel to eating crab legs. You have to work a bit at first, but what you get for your effort is well worth it. Me? I eat crab legs every chance I get, so, you know, I really liked the book. (4.5 stars and I always round up.)

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Kristin M.

Superb!

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2021

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This novel is a superb blend of sci-fi, dystopian, and post-apocalyptic genres, as lunar colonists return to their destroyed planet and rediscover the few survivors that were left behind. Each character's storyline weaves together organically in excellently crafted worldbuilding. Each character is well-fleshed out and realistic, but Hera's arc is my favorite. Cannot wait to read more.

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Jaime L. Voss

Great characters

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2021

Make that a 4.5 stars. The one very small thing that kept this novel from being five stars likely won't bother anyone else, so we'll pretend it never happened.

Full disclosure. Scott sent me a copy before release to see if I'd like to review this novel. If I'd hated the book, or thought it wasn't worth my time, I wouldn't be posting this right now. I don't review books I don't like. This is a really good book.

One-hundred seventeen years before this story started, a combination of war and climate collapse wiped out most of humanity. A lunar colony survives, and as far as they know, the 12,000 souls living in Luna are the only humans who remain.

The people living in the colony are thriving until potential disaster looms. The moon has become unstable, forcing the people living in Luna to launch a plan to reclaim, cleanse, resettle the earth. Their ingenious plan is a combination of bioengineering, clean technology, and advanced AI, as well as a talented group of young explorers that have been trained to go back to earth first.

Their trip back to a world they've never known is marred by tragedy and surprises. But if everything went smoothly, there wouldn't be a story, so don't take that as a mark against this book.

Coatsworth's world building is first rate, both back on the Luna colony and on a slowly recovering earth. Solutions to the problems they encounter don't appear by magic, the characters work for them.

But where Dropnaunts really excels is the diverse cast of characters. I could feel what it was like to see the sky for the first time, or discover you weren't alone in the world, to find birds and other life returning to an empty earth. To feel soft grass under your feet and feel rain on your skin, all things you'd never known before. Characters are what hook me into a book and keep me there.

Ghost and Hera made me cry. People who know me will recognize that crying means I'm invested in the characters.

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Wallace Rinkelhaus

Dystopia, the possibility of utopian solutions, of hope and redemption

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2021

The year 2282.

Over a century has passed since the Crash and the end of human civilization on Earth. There were no victors in the Last War. As far as they know, humanity's sole survivors, some 12,000+ souls, are living on the Moon. The colony of Redemption (formerly Moon Base Alpha) has created something of an egalitarian society, one which accepts the diversity of humanity, and strives to live up to the Redemption Creed: "I will not take another life's. I will not take what is not mine. I will not violate another. I will not lie. I will help build a better world" (385). More and more lunar quakes spell trouble. It's time to go home. The first two ships are dropping to Earth, with crews of dropnauts, primed for any number of possibilities. Or so they think. One ship is destroyed, with all aboard, the other shot out of the sky as it comes down for a landing. It seems the old world is not devoid of human life after all. Someone had to fire those missiles, right? Or a lot of booby-traps were left behind...

Complications ensue.

J. Scott Coatsworth has created a richly detailed and believable dystopian future, yet one with the promise of utopian solutions. The main characters, the four dropnauts on the Zhenyi, the craft shot out of the sky, are diverse indeed: a disabled individual, a gay man, a transgender woman, and a bisexual man. Back home on Luna, the Return project is shepherded by a sentient AI, Sam. These people are not, however labels or symbols. Rai Ramirez, for example, is a man who is gay, and a botanist, and a man who spent a good part of his childhood in a creche, a friend, a lover, among other things. Rather, here Coatsworth is exploring the possibilities of what it means to be a human, humans who are flawed and imperfect and engaging, annoying and lovable, as we all are,. The AIs are equally diverse, and are also people in their own right. I found myself cheering for them all, human and AI.

The diverse cultures that survived and evolved after the Crash are a testament to Coatsworth's skill as a world-builder. These cultures include the lunar attempt at an egalitarian society, to a matriarchal society living underground on Earth, and not willing to forgive men for past crimes. The details of each are varied, well-crafted, and believable, on the Moon and on the Earth, a post-Crash world of ecological catastrophe and global war.

Dropnauts is both a dystopian and a utopian novel, and a novel about what it means to be human, and how, when things are at their worst, sometimes we are our best. We can redeem ourselves, repair out mistakes. As author Lee Hunt says, the novel is "Fast, optimistic and entertaining. Coatsworth's Dropnauts shows that forgiveness may the best fuel for redemption" (back cover). This is a novel of hope.

According to the review in Publisher's Weekly, "Redemption, perseverance, and identity ... Readers will enjoy the diverse cast and high-tech adventure" (front cover). This reader sure did. A real page turner.

Recommended.

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