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“Simultaneously brutally grounded and wildly imaginative.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner
A tense and thrilling vision of humanity’s future in the chilling emptiness of space from rising giant in science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tade Thompson
The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a new home among the stars. But when first mate Michelle Campion rouses, she discovers some of the sleepers will never wake.
Answering Campion’s distress call, investigator Rasheed Fin is tasked with finding out who is responsible for these deaths. Soon a sinister mystery unfolds aboard the gigantic vessel, one that will have repercussions for the entire system—from the scheming politicians of Lagos station, to the colony planet Bloodroot, to other far-flung systems, and indeed to Earth itself.
Praise for Far from the Light of Heaven
"Gripping and skillfully told, with an economy and freshness of approach that is all Tade Thompson''s own. The setting is interstellar, but it feels as real, immediate, and lethal as today's headlines." —Alastair Reynolds
"[I]nventive, exciting and compulsively readable...This book is like the Tardis, larger inside than out, with a range of ideas, characters, and fascinating future settings making it probably the best science fiction novel of the year." —The Guardian
For more from Tade Thompson, check out:
The Wormwood Trilogy
Rosewater
Rosewater: Insurrection
Rosewater: Redemption
A tense and thrilling vision of humanity’s future in the chilling emptiness of space from rising giant in science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tade Thompson
The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a new home among the stars. But when first mate Michelle Campion rouses, she discovers some of the sleepers will never wake.
Answering Campion’s distress call, investigator Rasheed Fin is tasked with finding out who is responsible for these deaths. Soon a sinister mystery unfolds aboard the gigantic vessel, one that will have repercussions for the entire system—from the scheming politicians of Lagos station, to the colony planet Bloodroot, to other far-flung systems, and indeed to Earth itself.
Praise for Far from the Light of Heaven
"Gripping and skillfully told, with an economy and freshness of approach that is all Tade Thompson''s own. The setting is interstellar, but it feels as real, immediate, and lethal as today's headlines." —Alastair Reynolds
"[I]nventive, exciting and compulsively readable...This book is like the Tardis, larger inside than out, with a range of ideas, characters, and fascinating future settings making it probably the best science fiction novel of the year." —The Guardian
For more from Tade Thompson, check out:
The Wormwood Trilogy
Rosewater
Rosewater: Insurrection
Rosewater: Redemption
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“I wanted to like this book more than I did, but I really struggled especially at the beginning. It was a quick read, but I was confused in the first 30% of the book about a lot of stuff and was missing a lot of detail. I hate when books throw in new terms and don't take the time to clearly indicate via context clues what they mean, and I felt like this book did that quite a bit. As the plot got going, I definitely feel like I got more into it, especially as things slowly became more clear later in the book.
Speaking of plot, I love the idea of an AI going rogue. It's not an original idea, but it's a fun one, and I haven't read a ton of books with this premise even though I know they're out there. I really enjoyed thinking about the implications of being stuck on a ship where the AI controls everything while it's also actively trying to kill you and how difficult that would be to survive or deal with. It makes me think of self-driving cars, tbh lol. I also enjoyed reading from the perspective of the antagonist and how that whole situation led to the AI going rogue. Eventually, that sort of became the only interesting bit to me because the protagonists were just sort of blah, especially the idea of an AI doing whatever it took to complete its objective, even at the cost of killing random civilians because it was "necessary for the mission”.
But what I enjoyed with the plot, I felt like the characters were super lacking. There wasn't really any development and I didn't really care about any of the characters too much. The description of the aliens and their deal went way over my head and tbh, the author just couldn't get me to care enough to figure it out because the writing was so convoluted and meandering overall. Sometimes, things felt like they were written in a bit stream of consciousness fashion, which I hate, and a bunch of stuff could have been cut from this book and it wouldn't have mattered.
Of note, a lot of people seemed to have disliked the ending and felt that it was too abrupt, but I did actually like the ending. They figured out who was behind the rogue AI, killed the bad guy, and covered how everyone got out (or didn't get out) of the situation they were in. Seems like a good ending to me. Just because it wasn't an ending where everything was perfectly tied up doesn't mean that it didn't work as an ending, and I liked that it ended on a bit of a downer because this whole book was a downer. This book clearly was written to illustrate the danger of both capitalism, accumulating wealth, and revenge being taken too far, but it didn't really stir my feelings about any of the above.”Heaven Leigh
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About Tade Thompson
Tade Thompson is the author of the Rosewater novels, the Molly Southbourne books, and Making Wolf. He has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nommo Award, and the Prix Julia Verlanger and been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, the Locus Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Hugo Awards, among others. He lives and works on the south coast of England.
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