I really enjoyed this book. Once I got started on it, I couldn’t put it down, which is just what I love in a book. It takes a very serious subject – human-caused climate change – and considers how it might play out again in a distant time and place. (Basically we get a chance for a redo.) The book’s locale, Turaset, is an M-class planet somewhere in our galaxy where some of the last climate refugees from Earth have gone with the hope of keeping the human race alive.
The author did a good job of getting me to care about the characters. I liked how they were multi-faceted – I sympathized with them, got frustrated with them, worried about them, got angry with them, and then sympathized with them again.
A cool thing about this planet is that its human founders genetically engineered a variety of traits that gave the settlers a fighting chance of surviving on alien turf. One of the traits is Methusalah-like longevity. “Telomerics”, as they are called, have had their telomeres genetically engineered so that they don’t shorten, and thus they can live for a very, very long time. Among other things it was fascinating to see how the author explored the concept of long-lived people living among “blinks”, those like us who live and die in the blink of an eye. Others have the trait of geovoyance, essentially the whole history and geology of earth is encoded in the genes of those who carry this trait. And there are several other fascinating traits as well.
It looks like this book is one of a series about planet Turaset. I look forward to reading the first book in the series (Aerovoyant) and to others that the author has planned!
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The perfect companion for Aerovoyant
P.L.Tavormina has captured my imagination and held tight for both books. Incredible world building in this series as well as imagining the limits of mankind.Telomeric - What is it like to outlive everyone you know by hundreds of years? How far does a man go to reach his dreams? What sacrifices are acceptable? Is a planet simply a resource to use up before you move on to the next? Intriguing read through and through.Thought provoking entertainment. Quite a read indeed.
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Telomeric - What is it like to outlive everyone you know by hundreds of years? How far does a man go to reach his dreams? What sacrifices are acceptable? Is a planet simply a resource to use up before you move on to the next? Intriguing read through and through.
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P.L.Tavormina has captured my imagination and held tight for both books. Incredible world building in this series as well as imagining the limits of mankind.Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2021
Telomeric - What is it like to outlive everyone you know by hundreds of years? How far does a man go to reach his dreams? What sacrifices are acceptable? Is a planet simply a resource to use up before you move on to the next? Intriguing read through and through.
Thought provoking entertainment. Quite a read indeed.
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