Helix
Just finished reading "Helix" by Eric Brown, published by Solaris back in 2007.
"Helix" by the late Eric Brown is yet another example of a book that was that I bought years ago, in this case from the Barnes & Noble near where I live, that has been patiently waiting to be read in my tsundoku, my antilibrary. No, I don't keep track of the exact number of books that I've read compared to the number of books I actually own. [Though I do keep MS Excel spreadsheets on my music CDs, my audio drama CDs, my DVDs, and Big Little Books. The audio drama CD spreadsheet also includes color codes as to which dramas I have listened to.]
"Helix" offers an intriguing solution not only to the Fermi Paradox, but also an interesting mega-astro-engineering project conducted on an almost unimaginable scale that is a quiet different take on a Dyson Sphere.
In the near future Earth is becoming uninhabitable and society is breaking down.
Joe Hendry, a disillusioned space engineer, is living a subsistence life on the coast of Australia. His daughter is chosen to take part in a secret mission to take colonists to a new planet to try and start the human race's fight for survival again. Hendry unexpectedly is able to take part in this journey and integrated into the crew of the Lovelock. Only once it near's it's destination, the Lovelock crashlands on an unknown planet, and 1000 year cryosleep. Hendry and his team, consisting of the young inuit, Sissy Kaluchek, African Friday Olembe and the mysterious Italian, Gina Carrelli, must explore this new alien landscape to see if it will make a suitable homeland, while trying to comprehend something they never expected to find - worlds upon worlds in a helix structure.
Meanwhile, on one of the many worlds of the Helix, Ehrin, a young dirigible builder and entrepreneur, is facing battles of his own against the repressive and conservative Church that seeks to conceal the truth of their world and others. Ehrin's dream to find what his father hinted at before his own untimely death leads him into dangerous ground.
A great fun read.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Helix-Eric-Bro...
"Helix" by the late Eric Brown is yet another example of a book that was that I bought years ago, in this case from the Barnes & Noble near where I live, that has been patiently waiting to be read in my tsundoku, my antilibrary. No, I don't keep track of the exact number of books that I've read compared to the number of books I actually own. [Though I do keep MS Excel spreadsheets on my music CDs, my audio drama CDs, my DVDs, and Big Little Books. The audio drama CD spreadsheet also includes color codes as to which dramas I have listened to.]
"Helix" offers an intriguing solution not only to the Fermi Paradox, but also an interesting mega-astro-engineering project conducted on an almost unimaginable scale that is a quiet different take on a Dyson Sphere.
In the near future Earth is becoming uninhabitable and society is breaking down.
Joe Hendry, a disillusioned space engineer, is living a subsistence life on the coast of Australia. His daughter is chosen to take part in a secret mission to take colonists to a new planet to try and start the human race's fight for survival again. Hendry unexpectedly is able to take part in this journey and integrated into the crew of the Lovelock. Only once it near's it's destination, the Lovelock crashlands on an unknown planet, and 1000 year cryosleep. Hendry and his team, consisting of the young inuit, Sissy Kaluchek, African Friday Olembe and the mysterious Italian, Gina Carrelli, must explore this new alien landscape to see if it will make a suitable homeland, while trying to comprehend something they never expected to find - worlds upon worlds in a helix structure.
Meanwhile, on one of the many worlds of the Helix, Ehrin, a young dirigible builder and entrepreneur, is facing battles of his own against the repressive and conservative Church that seeks to conceal the truth of their world and others. Ehrin's dream to find what his father hinted at before his own untimely death leads him into dangerous ground.
A great fun read.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Helix-Eric-Bro...
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