Alex Cabe reviewed The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
Good Mystery and Character Study, a Little Shallow on the Worldbuilding
4 stars
This was very enjoyable sci-fi that wasn't quite as "hard" as it thought it was. The author consulted with NASA and gave a pretty good look at what long term space travel would be like, but some issues were pure magic or were handwaved. I agree with one of the prominent reviews here that there was no story reason for the characters to be 17 years old.
Making this a US/Soviet retro-futuristic conflict was an interesting choice that I'm thinking over.
Choosing the name "Cusk" was unfortunate.
This was good enough that I'll read the sequel when it comes out, but I wonder where the sequel can go. This is a pretty closed loop of a story. Seems difficult to come up with a new mystery for the next book.
Also, if you're going to have sex on a spacecraft, and there's a zero G area, you're going to try …
This was very enjoyable sci-fi that wasn't quite as "hard" as it thought it was. The author consulted with NASA and gave a pretty good look at what long term space travel would be like, but some issues were pure magic or were handwaved. I agree with one of the prominent reviews here that there was no story reason for the characters to be 17 years old.
Making this a US/Soviet retro-futuristic conflict was an interesting choice that I'm thinking over.
Choosing the name "Cusk" was unfortunate.
This was good enough that I'll read the sequel when it comes out, but I wonder where the sequel can go. This is a pretty closed loop of a story. Seems difficult to come up with a new mystery for the next book.
Also, if you're going to have sex on a spacecraft, and there's a zero G area, you're going to try it in the zero G area at least once.
