Why read The Last Star?

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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…

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

Dave Jeffery

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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…

From Dave's 3 favorite reads in 2023.