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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Tiffany Nieslanik’s Home Planet follows Bryn Rionnag, an astronaut chosen to lead humanity’s first solo mission to Caerus, a distant planet being studied as a possible refuge for an overcrowded Earth. Three days before the launch, Bryn learns she is pregnant, news that could end the mission she has spent years preparing to lead. After departure, she discovers another secret about herself that makes the journey far stranger than anyone expected. Her husband Teddy remains on Earth, where inconsistencies surrounding the launch lead him to question the space agency Bryn trusted with her life. As the Elpis carries Bryn beyond the solar system, her scientific assignment turns into a search for answers about her own origins, leaving her to decide how much she can trust the people who sent her there.
Tiffany Nieslanik’s Home Planet is brilliant science fiction, and Nieslanik has a wonderful way of making technology feel natural aboard the Elpis, and a lot of that is down to the wit of the prose. The science is fantastic, with every system serving a practical purpose. That comes through when Bryn collects Europa’s icy plumes with drones before testing the samples in her lab. I also love Barbara, Elpis’s artificial intelligence, whose literal replies give her a dry voice that makes her conversations with Bryn instantly recognizable. Nieslanik shines in worldbuilding, giving the journey a strong sense of place. At Waystation Bravo, greenhouse bays compost old crops before reseeding themselves for visiting crews. That imagination reaches Caerus, which glows purple beneath its white dwarf when Bryn first sees it from orbit. Well written and imaginative, readers who enjoy character-led science fiction will adore this.
