![]() ![]() ![]() While some major plot points or character developments can feel rushed, Escaping Exodus: Symbiosis is, at its core, rooted in a fascinating world that presents intriguing questions to its readers, as well as driven, complex, and often queer characters. Harper Voyager Trade Paperback OriginalThe Compton Crook awardwinning author of The Prey of Gods and Temper returns with a dazzling stand-alone novel. ![]() One rises, one falls, and their complex and forbidden relationship causes a major rupture in the society. On a generation ship, two young people from different classes meet and fall in love. Drayden’s novel trades off humor with dark reality, connecting this sf world to our own questions of cooperation, gender inequality, and, most of all, our relationship to our planet. Escaping Exodus, Nicky Drayden ( Harper Voyager 978-0-06-286773-5, 15.99, 300pp, tp) October 2019. Meanwhile, they are uncovering new secrets and issues that introduce even more turbulence. This second volume starts with now-ruler Doka and his wife, Seske, fighting for this new reality, which has made many unhappy, leading to political stagnation. The people terraform the interior of the beasts, exploiting both the beasts’ internal systems and the biota that have adapted to live inside them as those systems are exhausted, the society has to move from one beast. ![]() In the first volume ( Escaping Exodus, 2019), the matriarchal, polyamorous society realized their Zenzee had consciousness, and committed to respecting and restoring their world as much as possible, living with minimum negative impact. In Escaping Exodus, people use a pod of space whales as generation ships to escape an (unnamed) catastrophe on Earth. Booklist: In Drayden’s Escaping Exodus series, humans carve out lives in the bodies of space creatures called the Zenzee, capturing a new home whenever an old one wears out. ![]()
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