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Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell by Tamara Wilhite
By Tony George
I recently read the book "Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" by Tamara Wilhite This book is science fiction. The crew of the starship Archer left Earth to identify possible habitable worlds. After finding a world they deemed inhospitable and radioing this information to Earth, they find themselves stranded. There is no faster than light travel, so their choices are life and death. The crew is split between those who choose to die out and those who chose to try to survive. This inter-generational epic then follows those who sought to build a new life on the new world. Through genetic engineering and terraforming - and the challenges brought by not having been equipped for that purpose - they need several generations to remake their world and themselves into a kind of harmony. A new starship from Earth arrives 300 years later, forcing the Archer's crew's descendants to relearn their own human history and to forge a new future ahead. I like Jeran, the grandson of one of the ship's cyborgs. From the literal loss of his mother to the more complex gradual loss of his father, his desperate attempts to fit in leading to him creating the next mutation in their bloodline, his full range of the human experience leads to his people being able to breathe the poisonous surface air. Following his long life span and his experiences of watching several generations of his own family carry the weight of the founder of a society. But you don't just see "great man who founded a new people, way of living, etc", you see him as a young child and the loss of his mother. You see his struggling with his foster brother, his desire to bond to a father who has shut down from the loss of Jeran's mother, guilt and anger at his own infertility, the pain of his divorce and remarriage, the suicide attempt that leads to the new life on the open surface for his people. Very human while evolving away from that very species is fascinating to me. I recommend this book to everyone. It touches on everything from voluntary human extinction to nanotechnology to genetic engineering. It portrays some of the social structures Robert Heinlein explored in "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress", but with the real human drama. "Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell" by Tamara Wilhite is an engaging, powerful and frequently ironic science fiction novel by neglected science fiction author. |
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