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In Mendy Sobol’s The Eternal Blue Sky, humanity has left Earth and built colonies on distant planets, where people regain the dreams lost elsewhere in space. Elderly war veteran Eric Stratton lives outside Noahstown until Jenny Harvard arrives, asking him to explain the Dream Wars, a history kept from children raised after the conflict. Jenny spent her childhood in a reeducation camp, and her surname links her to John Harvard, the Taran ruler whose genetically altered people conquered other colonies. Eric begins with Mitka Rabinowitz, an adopted boy from Cascadia whose talent for chess leads him toward military strategy. As Tara expands its empire and Athena attempts to stop it, Eric’s account moves closer to Magnolia, where Jenny must confront what her family did and understand why Eric still lives with the war decades later.
Mendy Sobol’s The Eternal Blue Sky is an excellent science fiction novel, and the planets and generations are easy to follow. I loved the military ideas since Sobol explains each invention in the scene where it is important. During Operation First Knight, fleet leader Shoshanna Keeney sends troop transports toward occupied Palawan in unpowered gliders following mathematically irregular routes, giving the battle an ingenious opening a reader can picture. Sobol also writes characters with distinct personalities and gives their relationships a genuine place in the story. On Canaan, adviser Zenobia Benjamin creates a silent language of smiles and grimaces with an elderly Taran prisoner forbidden to speak, turning their walks into a wonderful friendship. Well written and imaginative, readers who enjoy military science fiction and true epic space operas that follow war across generations will adore this.
