![]() In the opening section, the narrator is Octavo, one of the original colonists, giving us the story about a month after first landing. ![]() The novel is about a group of colonists who travel to an earth-like planet, but quickly realize that the additional billion years of existence and evolution on the planet (plus all the other ways in which worlds can be different) have made this planet not only impossibly different from what they thought, but extraordinarily dangerous as well. That’s not really a fair criticism, except that the opening section of the book is very good and interesting, and then quickly pivots away from what I found to be so interesting. I almost wish it wasn’t the book it is, and is instead the book I thought it would be. I am not exactly sure what to make of this book in part because it pivots multiple times from start to finish. ![]() “The war had begun long before we arrived because war was their way of life.” ![]()
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