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Seed Seeker (Seed #3)
by
Pamela Sargent (Goodreads Author)
An adventure in colonization and conflict from acclaimed SF writer Pamela Sargent
Several hundred years ago, Ship, a sentient starship, settled humans on the planet Home before leaving to colonize other worlds, promising to return one day. Over time, the colony on Home divided into those who live in the original domed buildings of the colony, who maintain the library and te...more
Several hundred years ago, Ship, a sentient starship, settled humans on the planet Home before leaving to colonize other worlds, promising to return one day. Over time, the colony on Home divided into those who live in the original domed buildings of the colony, who maintain the library and te...more
Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
November 9th 2010
by Tor Books
(first published November 1st 2010)
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I completed the Earthseed trilogy and found all three books quite intriguing. I was really impressed with the author's creativity and imagination, and I'm not just saying that because the author is my Aunt Pam! These books address a really interesting question: if humans were to leave Earth, would the worlds we create be any better, or would we still fight wars and find ourselves in endless power struggles? I'm not sure I agree with the answer these books suggest, but how the story ends seems pl...more
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A few generations ago, the sentient Ship found the planet Home, and seeded a human colony there. Ship promised to return one day to check up on their progress after it finds more planets to colonize.
Now Ship has returned to Home, and the people there aren't sure they want it to come back.
There are two different groups of people living on Home, as represented by their PoV narrators. There are the 'dome dwellers' who remain at the initial settlement and live off the technology and supplies that Sh...more
Now Ship has returned to Home, and the people there aren't sure they want it to come back.
There are two different groups of people living on Home, as represented by their PoV narrators. There are the 'dome dwellers' who remain at the initial settlement and live off the technology and supplies that Sh...more
Good YA scifi is hard to find, and having heard good buzz about Seed Seeker I was pleased when a friend gave me a copy. I wasn't disappointed. The story is told from the points of view of two main characters, Safrah and Bian. They both live on a planet called Home, but Safrah lives with a group who claim to be 'true humanity' in domes and surrounded by technology left by the Ship that brought them to the planet, and Bian lives with the River People out on the planet.
When a light appears in the s...more
When a light appears in the s...more
I am reviewing a copy provided by the publisher.
Bian has never been beyond the fields of her village. The River People have had little need to travel north to visit the Dome Dwellers. They do not want for food or clothing, only the strange technology of their ancestors brings them upriver to trade with the people they became separated from so long ago. Fuel cells can’t replenish themselves, after all. Neither can the colonists, the Dome Dwellers—the survivors who maintain their righteous link to...more
Bian has never been beyond the fields of her village. The River People have had little need to travel north to visit the Dome Dwellers. They do not want for food or clothing, only the strange technology of their ancestors brings them upriver to trade with the people they became separated from so long ago. Fuel cells can’t replenish themselves, after all. Neither can the colonists, the Dome Dwellers—the survivors who maintain their righteous link to...more
Descendants of colonists left to settle another world discover that their seeding AI starship has returned to check them out.
I was definitely the wrong reader for this, since I don't have much tolerance for being told rather than shown back story and significant developments, for low-key characters who all sound the same when they talk, and for a slow moving and entirely predictable plot. Sargent does something else that killed this for me: she divides her narrative into chapters and numerous su...more
I was definitely the wrong reader for this, since I don't have much tolerance for being told rather than shown back story and significant developments, for low-key characters who all sound the same when they talk, and for a slow moving and entirely predictable plot. Sargent does something else that killed this for me: she divides her narrative into chapters and numerous su...more
I received this book free via a Goodread's contest.
Seed Seeker, the third volume in the Seed Trilogy, compares poorly with the first volume, Earthseed.
My main complaint about this book is that the story is told from two points of view and both of these are from girls that are always scared. That gives the book a monotonic feel as well as an underlying sense of passivity. I also found the strong underlying religious tone of the book cloying.
Since I'm definitely not in the demographic focus for th...more
Seed Seeker, the third volume in the Seed Trilogy, compares poorly with the first volume, Earthseed.
My main complaint about this book is that the story is told from two points of view and both of these are from girls that are always scared. That gives the book a monotonic feel as well as an underlying sense of passivity. I also found the strong underlying religious tone of the book cloying.
Since I'm definitely not in the demographic focus for th...more
We are back at Home, the planet Ship seeded. A moving light in the sky remind everyone about Ship’s promise to return. The River People lives simple agrarian lives close to the alien nature that changed them forever. The Dome Dwellers, the ‘true humans’ are dwindling and only a few mature kids and an unruly group of kids remains. They all share the legends about Ship.
But they also share mistrust for the other. The light sets off a series of events that fuels their mistrust and violence threatens...more
But they also share mistrust for the other. The light sets off a series of events that fuels their mistrust and violence threatens...more
3.5 stars - This book is sure to please fans of this series. The plot is promising, but the characterization is, on the whole, lacking something.
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Read my full review here:
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Average. Nice story with good potential, but you never really get that feeling of being pulled into the story along with the characters. Feels a bit flat.
Really good book about a human colony and the computerized seed ship that seeks them.
I think Earthseed is still my favorite of the series, but it's been really neat to see the entire span of the overarching story of Ship and its children!
I really enjoyed this book. The characters were believable and the contrast between the two groups of people in the book was very realistic. I liked how both groups were portrayed and it felt like this was almost a real life story. Both groups distrusted but how the one tried to hide from the other was very much like real life. I am looking forward to reading more by this author.
I liked this one best out of the three
An excellent series!
it was kinda "YA", but i liked it. fun andventure/sense of wonder novel.
The last piece of the Earthseed trilogy. Just like the sequel, I say meh. Even more so. The new characters were interesting, but there was no compelling motive or driving interest.
I have only gotten through a short part of this book and have put it aside. I found it boring. I may pick it up again in the future, but I have some other more exciting books to read.
I have not had the privilege of reading the first two books in this series, but believe me when I say that I am certainly going to try to find them. This sounds like a great thrill ride of a book.
My review of Seed Seeker ran on 7/15/11 in Strange Horizons!
Go read. It's yummy.
Go read. It's yummy.
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Pamela Sargent has won the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. In 2012, she was honored with the Pilgrim Award by the Science Fiction Research Association for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship. She is the author of the novels Cloned Lives, The Sudden Star, Wa...more
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