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Reviewed by Ian Miller for Readers' Favorite
The book starts with a prologue that is actually the end, and then reverts to the beginning, where Ellenore Gin is teaching and Theodore Kim is engaged in a bar fight. It then switches to an observatory, where Telev focuses the telescope on some coordinates, sees no anomaly, heats a burrito in a microwave, is dissatisfied, and throws the microwave out the window. The observatory is then demolished by some unknown force. Gin and Kim go for job interviews, decline and then find themselves on a space ship orbiting Saturn. Further into the book, we find that a great virus has descended on Earth> Everybody is dead, except for da Silva, who wanders around, uncertain of who he is, what he is and why he is alive, while the space ship heads off towards galaxy M89 at about a third of a megaparsec per day, or about warp 360 million. You are also expected to believe that such ships can be built in the 21st century, but the builders cannot keep a virus out of a sealed cave.
The book is well-written and well-presented. You may not like them, but the characters are well-drawn and held my attention. The scenes are well-described. The book comprises a sequence of scenes that are somewhat existential. For much of the book, the plot is essentially stationary, and then at the end it covers a considerable amount of ground. But then exactly what happens is open to considerable interpretation. At the end we also find that some of what was presented near the beginning was not exactly true, and a case could be made that the very ending is an extreme case of deus ex machina. Accordingly, there will be some for whom this book is great, and others for whom it will go to the other end of the spectrum.
