Just Arrived: “The Disestablishment Of Paradise” by Phillip Mann

Phillip Mann is a fellow New Zealand-based writer, and author of the prior The Gardener and A Land Fit For Heroes series.

The Disestablishment Of Paradise is his first new novel since 1996 and reads, from the back cover, as what I would call “biological” or “ecological” science fiction. But it is definitely science fiction, with the synopsis focusing on human settlement of space.

Here’s what the back cover synopsis says, in full:

“Something has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise.

The human sett...