**** The future of the past
Four
years ago I read “Salamander War”, the sequel to this book, and I appreciated
it greatly, despite being old-fashioned science fiction.
“Colonists
of Space” clarifies the previous events, that is, it narrates the journey of
the Colonist’s crew to a planet called Bel, with all its difficulties. In my
opinion there is a lesser originality than what will be seen in the next book,
so much that it suffers more of the passing of time, but it was still a
pleasant reading with some unpredictable twists and even a little action.
One
of the most interesting episodes is the short stay in an apparently uninhabited
planet, made necessary to carry out a repair. Two of the main characters, Dr.
Hyde and Eleanor, move away to collect samples and soon the situation falls
apart.
Some
problems encountered during the journey are resolved with excessive ease, but
all the novel has a very fast pace and a linear plot that, like the next one,
makes it a perfect read for the younger ones and for those who, like me,
sometimes wants to travel in space with fantasy without too much effort.
In
the way the characters speaks, as well as in the whole text in general, there
is a sense of formality typical of the past. It facilitates the identification
of the reader in this future of the past, in which one travels from one star
system to the other, in which gravity is dominated, but computers still use
perforated cards.
The
beautiful of fiction is that even an impossible scenario like this, when you
read it in a book, seems quite plausible.
Colonists of Space on Amazon.
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