"So far, it has been an encouraging year for science fiction. My favourite new offering to date is probably Hal LaCroix’s Here and Beyond, but then, I’m a sucker for a good ark-ship story."
-- Emily Wilson, New Scientist Magazine
"The only realistic way human beings could colonise planets beyond our solar system is if they spent their lives travelling and committed their children and grandchildren to the same fate, so their descendants might have a chance to reach another habitable world. Writers who have taken this fictional challenge, including Robert A Heinlein and Brian Aldiss, have assumed civilisational breakdowns would result, with the survivors coming to believe their ship is the only world there ever was. The author of this brilliant, character-driven debut novel has taken a more optimistic view. On Earthworld, success was measured in terms of expansion and exploitation, but on Shipworld, survival depends on preservation, recycling and austerity. During 360 years of travel to planet HD-40307g, the descendants of the original 600 pioneers never lose sight of the distant goal, along the way meeting unexpected challenges, setbacks and tragedies, but also innovations, insights and moments of joy. It’s an imaginative journey that’s absorbing, thoughtful and deeply humane."
-- Lisa Tuttle, The Guardian
Indeed, a lot can happen inside an ark spaceship during an intergenerational voyage from Earth to a habitable planet 42 light years away. Check out my novel Here and Beyond, available from Bloomsbury Publishing in print, audiobook and e-book forms. Also try Amazon UK or bookshop.org.
-- Emily Wilson, New Scientist Magazine
"The only realistic way human beings could colonise planets beyond our solar system is if they spent their lives travelling and committed their children and grandchildren to the same fate, so their descendants might have a chance to reach another habitable world. Writers who have taken this fictional challenge, including Robert A Heinlein and Brian Aldiss, have assumed civilisational breakdowns would result, with the survivors coming to believe their ship is the only world there ever was. The author of this brilliant, character-driven debut novel has taken a more optimistic view. On Earthworld, success was measured in terms of expansion and exploitation, but on Shipworld, survival depends on preservation, recycling and austerity. During 360 years of travel to planet HD-40307g, the descendants of the original 600 pioneers never lose sight of the distant goal, along the way meeting unexpected challenges, setbacks and tragedies, but also innovations, insights and moments of joy. It’s an imaginative journey that’s absorbing, thoughtful and deeply humane."
-- Lisa Tuttle, The Guardian
Indeed, a lot can happen inside an ark spaceship during an intergenerational voyage from Earth to a habitable planet 42 light years away. Check out my novel Here and Beyond, available from Bloomsbury Publishing in print, audiobook and e-book forms. Also try Amazon UK or bookshop.org.
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