Book description
Beware god-like aliens bearing gifts
Stasis and inorganic self-repair, new spacefaring technologies for humankind, yet more gifts from its closest extra-terrestrial ally, the Iaens. There are, it seems, no limits to humanity’s outward journey.
Then Lana Reed, Mission Commander of the interstellar colony seeder, Drake, awakes from her own stasis…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Last Star as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love science fiction told with a ‘classical’ slant (for example Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke) and The Last Star takes this approach but infuses it with a modern-day ethos.
An interstellar spacecraft—Drake—crosses the universe, its captain woken from stasis with a few other crewmembers, only to find the rest of their human cargo have been suffocated en route.
I think that Grimwood’s tale is told with such bleakness and detail, it makes for a beguiling read; from the very real friction between the crew as they battle the gravity of being the last few representatives of humanity, the…
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