Why read The Concordia Deception?

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Facing the enemy at the gates

All her life Cariad had one dream: to participate in humanity's colonization of deep space. After topping her field as a geneticist, and then spending 184 years in cryonic suspension, she's achieved her goal.

But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists…

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1 author picked The Concordia Deception as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Brian Enke

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This book fits squarely into my ‘realistic space settlement’ wheelhouse. Establishing a colony lightyears from Earth will be hard…really hard. Desperation is a good motivation for early settlers; you’ll find plenty in these pages. Besides natural disasters (floods, predators, disease), our fearless heroes must fight themselves.

Suspicion fuels a rift between the final generation of settlers born on the massive colony ship (the Gens) and the scientific experts who arrived in suspended animation (the Woken). Then, the Guardians arrive from Earth in a faster-than-light starship armed with advanced weapons and technology. They seem determined to save the colony at all…

From Brian's 3 favorite reads in 2023.