Sanctuary by Allen Steele
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Length: Short Story (27 pages)
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Reviewed by AstilbeAn edge of your seat hard SF adventure as colonists on a new world find that nothing is what they expected and that travelling to a distant star is far more dangerous than they’d ever imagined…in Allen Steele’s Sanctuary.
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The world building was fantastic. I especially appreciated all of the time the author spent describing what the climate and wildlife were like on the new planet. These are the sorts of details that make a setting come alive in my imagination, especially when they’re described by a narrator who was sharing an objective impression of what their surroundings were like and what was happening to them and the crew as they acclimated to their surroundings. It was exactly the sort of writing I’d expect to see in the hard science fiction sub-genre.
There were times when I found the large cast of characters confusing. This was even more true due to how often the different narrators took over describing what happened to these colonists next after they finally arrived at an Earth-like planet and realized that all of the earlier data they’d collected about it had neglected to pick up on one critical detail about what that planet was actually like. If not for the issues I had remembering who was who, I would have given this tale a perfect rating. Everything else about it was extremely well done.
The ending made me yearn for more. While it did tie up all of the most important conflicts from earlier on in the plot, it also left room for all sorts of different things to happen to the characters from that point forward. I appreciated the fact that I could come up with my own theories about what the crew’s ultimate fates would be once they realized what their lives were truly going to be like on this planet. If Mr. Steele ever decides to write a sequel, I’d sure love to read it.
If you’ve ever gazed up at the night sky and wondered what it would be like to visit a faraway world, Sanctuary might be right up your alley.
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