Staff Pick
Open Earth is an erotic story about polyamorous relationships set in space. Or, to say it another way, it's a profoundly hopeful tale about the first generation to grow up in space coming into adulthood, born of a group of scientists who abandoned a dying earth. The young people who grew up unaffected by the media and norms of Earth are contrasted with their parents — Earthlings — with their strange nostalgia for past ways and weird fixation on monogamy. The beautiful diversity of the characters and their deep commitment to radical honesty and being good to each other is all just really lovely, especially in times like these. Maybe these more hopeful apocalypses are exactly what we need right now in order to imagine ourselves into a future worth living. Recommended By Cosima C., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A heartfelt, positive, and erotic look at one woman's adventure in love and sex, as a new generation learns to make their own rules and follow their own hearts aboard an orbiting space station.
Rigo is a young woman of her time: specifically, the time just after the collapse of Earth. After living her whole life on a small space station orbiting the planet, the cultural norms and rules of her Californian parents are just history to her. In between work shifts at the station air farm, Rigo explores her own desires, developing openly polyamorous relationships with her friends and crewmates. When she starts to feel one of those relationships change, however, Rigo must balance her new feelings with the stability of her other relationships, as well as the hard-earned camaraderie of a small crew floating in the vastness of space. But, as the ship motto goes, "Honesty keeps us alive."
Synopsis
"It's fun, sexy, and inclusive." - BookRiot.com A heartfelt, positive, and erotic look at one woman's adventure in love and sex, as a new generation learns to make their own rules and follow their own hearts aboard an orbiting space station.
Rigo is a young woman of her time: specifically, the time just after the collapse of Earth. After living her whole life on a small space station orbiting the planet, the cultural norms and rules of her Californian parents are just history to her. In between work shifts at the station air farm, Rigo explores her own desires, developing openly polyamorous relationships with her friends and crewmates. When she starts to feel one of those relationships change, however, Rigo must balance her new feelings with the stability of her other relationships, as well as the hard-earned camaraderie of a small crew floating in the vastness of space. But, as the ship motto goes, "Honesty keeps us alive."