"The Last Astronaut" by David Wellington released by Orbit Book
Just finished reading "The Last Astronaut" by David Wellington released by Orbit Books.
Unfortunately "The Last Astronaut" doesn't break any new ground or present any intriguing science fiction concepts - unless you're willing to give it credit for not resolving the mystery - SPOILER ALERT - of how a race of hungry semi-intelligent carnivorous worms were able to build an interstellar craft and surviving in a sort of stasis for billions of years.
Commander Sally Jansen was NASA's best and brightest, but she took the blame professionally and personally when a mechanical failure on the first and last NASA Mars Mission ended in the mission being aborted and the horrific death of one of her crew. Now Jansen is offered a chance at redemption - an alien spacecraft has entered the Solar System and has changed it's course so that it will end up in Earth orbit.
"The Last Astronaut" is a check mark book - main character with a haunted past with intense personal issues and guilt that causes her to make irrational decisions - check. Main character admits she's bi-sexual just out of the blue - check. White military man is sexist and bad - check. The ending, when one astronaut returns to Earth despite being a Bio-Hazard that could cause the extinction of all life on the planet, is totally unbelievable.
Not an enjoyable read.
Definitely Not Recommended.
Zero Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Astronaut...
Unfortunately "The Last Astronaut" doesn't break any new ground or present any intriguing science fiction concepts - unless you're willing to give it credit for not resolving the mystery - SPOILER ALERT - of how a race of hungry semi-intelligent carnivorous worms were able to build an interstellar craft and surviving in a sort of stasis for billions of years.
Commander Sally Jansen was NASA's best and brightest, but she took the blame professionally and personally when a mechanical failure on the first and last NASA Mars Mission ended in the mission being aborted and the horrific death of one of her crew. Now Jansen is offered a chance at redemption - an alien spacecraft has entered the Solar System and has changed it's course so that it will end up in Earth orbit.
"The Last Astronaut" is a check mark book - main character with a haunted past with intense personal issues and guilt that causes her to make irrational decisions - check. Main character admits she's bi-sexual just out of the blue - check. White military man is sexist and bad - check. The ending, when one astronaut returns to Earth despite being a Bio-Hazard that could cause the extinction of all life on the planet, is totally unbelievable.
Not an enjoyable read.
Definitely Not Recommended.
Zero Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Astronaut...
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