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Review:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5)

What a treat – I thoroughly enjoyed this one for a lot of reasons. First off, Older is a skillful world builder, not in the sense of grandeur and scope, but in dropping the reader onto a distant planet and making it feel real. That mankind could indeed live on Giant (Jupiter) and its lava-spewing moon Io sometime in the future after totally messing up our own planet. More importantly, she looks at humans as creatures of instinct and habit, ready to repeat a whole bunch of the same behaviour that got us booted off Earth in the first place. Then there’s the relegation of Io to a second-class location once the rings and platforms were in place and the affluent people could live hovering over Giant. It seems we need to establish class barriers no matter where we go. And Older weaves an interesting thread through the story – that some of us will always crave freedom and autonomy from the status quo. There were a couple of times when I reread a passage and found myself thinking that Older’s style was similar to the Robert Heinlein classic, Stranger in a Strange Land – high praise. And at the heart of the book is the warm and tender relationship between Mossa and Pleiti. I really liked both these characters and how, while they were very different people, held each other in high regard. The only downside to the book is that the murder (yes, there was a murder) seemed like it was inserted into the story to serve a “someone has to die” purpose. But that is not a reason to pass on this one. Grab a copy and give it a go.

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