La mission vers la planète Antarès a été mise en place avec, à bord du vaisseau, Kim et sa fille Lynn. Entassés, les passagers doivent vivre dans la promiscuité, générant des tensions. Même Kim, malgré son statut privilégié, découvre peu à peu l'hostilité des colons mus par une idéologie religieuse intolérante. Enfin arrivé sur la planète, chacun découvre très vite un lieu aux multiples dangers. Deuxième épisode de cette série devenue culte par un maître du genre : Leo.
Les gens de ce secte qui a financé le voyage à Antarès montrent de plus en plus ses vraies couleurs moches et dégoûtantes…et c’est bien sûr Maï Lan et Alexa qui vont subir en premier les effets de cette religion patriarcale et surtout misogynes.
Mais même Kim et sa fille Lynn ne vont pas être à l’abri : ils vont être harcelé à cause des yeux de Lynn, sans parler du fait que la société qui a financé ce voyage a menti à Kim concernant le niveau du danger présent sur Antarès à cause, en premier, de ses animaux carnivores et vicieux. Mais il y a autre chose qui présent un danger, et Zao et Salif la connaît trop bien :
Donc je suis vraiment curieuse de voir comment les choses vont se passer, de voir qui va remporter le jour dans ce combat de croyances et de pouvoir sur une planète si lointain et aussi hostile qu’il pourrait l’être. Il ne reste que de lire la suite !
I got properly hooked by this after reading Épisode 1, and ploughed enthusiastically through the rest of the sequence. I felt that Leo is on top of his game here, balancing the travails of the exploration party (led of course by Kim, who is the heroine of the entire story) with the story of the evil fundamentalist cultists who are trying to assert control over the entire colony and put women like Kim in their place. At the same time the sensawunda is maintained, with the last volume knitting together strands from the Aldébaran and Bételgeuse cycles to reach a pretty satisfying conclusion to Kim's story, all as ever gorgeously illustrated.
This second episode, currently available on Kindle Unlimited, is an improvement on the first. The adventure gets going with lots of events and mysteries, a lot of world building imagination concerning flora and fauna, and a good representation of life on a colony ship. The author’s view of a fanatical religious future is a chilling one, yet again. The book ends with a cliffhanger and is not a self-contained story.
Continua la missione verso Antares, e si capisce come gli uomini del futuro, anche se avranno tecnologie straordinarie per l’oggi, saranno sempre dei grandissimi bastarmi idioti, se infarciti di credenze religiose da sciocchi. La storia é sempre appassionante, ma per fortuna a quella Leo ci ha abituato da tempo...
The scene set by volume one, the story really starts to move fast in this episode. Kim and her friends finds themselves on a ship full of religious fanatics on the way to Antares, and things go even further downhill once they arrive….
Picking up where the first album of Antares, the third cycle in Leo's Worlds of Aldebaran saga, left off, this second album presents with the journey to Aldebaran, and already en route the company behind the project is beginning to show its true colours as a fanatic and super-conservative religious cult, hoping to set up a new planet based on their ideals. Clearly, these ideals are not a match for Kim Keller and her friends, and things are starting to look bleak.
This is yet another find instalment in Leo's expanding narrative.
Another good episode of Leo's multivolume saga. The totalitarian menace of Aldebaran returns in the form of a capitalist/ fundamentalist cult. The unexplained phenomena that make Antares an alien-yet-familiar planet are ever-present...
In this volume, I liked the sci-fi depiction of a long interstellar trip and the moral and social issues with being crammed in a confined space with a bunch of strangers. When the journey ends and the group reaches Antares all sorts of new threads open up and the group gets back to the adventure.
Recent Reads: Antares Episode 2. More from Leo's Aldebaran saga. Kim's journey to a new world is anything but comfortable as the colonists' religious bigotry starts to show. Arrival isn't as expected, either, as the planet's highly competitive ecology starts to bare its teeth.