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The style is embarrassingly puerile from the start, and by page five I was wondering why in the world this made it on a science fiction rec list. This is crap. The whole premise is screwy. Humans are going to go to the expense (and people are going to volunteer) for a one-way "seedship" to some random star where there may not even be an inhabitable planet?
In the first chapter we get cringe-worthy Hispanic stereotypes and utter implausibility as a just-arrived illegal immigrant from Mexico finds ...more
In the first chapter we get cringe-worthy Hispanic stereotypes and utter implausibility as a just-arrived illegal immigrant from Mexico finds ...more

Mar 28, 2011
Angela Randall
marked it as to-read