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encgolsen
, August 06, 2013
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I loved this book because it does everything great science fiction should do: it takes the reader somewhere amazing and exotic, a distant planet where bioluminescent life forms live in permanent darkness, yet the real focus of the story is on humanity and what it means to be human. The story is set among a small and inbred society, the descendants of two stranded humans. They have evolved traditions and mythology based on the instructions of their ancestors, Angela and Tommy. Most members of this large family are content to stay put, waiting for rescue from Earth, but a teenage boy named John Redlantern insists on asking questions that will change everything. Reading this book made think about the ways that humans have set out for unknown destinations throughout history, risking everything on the belief that what they will find is better than what they left.
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