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A review by laci
Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury
5.0
Me, about a quarter of the book in: o_O
There will be no plot spoilers here, just some thoughts on the world building, etc. If you like figuring it out by yourself, or enjoying a slower reveal, don't read on. :)
In summary, the name might as well be Cargo Cult: The Book. That is an idea I'd always liked - the original cargo cults were interesting enough. The first time I'd read something like this in a sci-fi, it was in Asimov's Foundation. But here, it's the central tenet the world is built upon.
People were brought to a hostile planet by a spaceship still orbiting in the sky. They still have and very much use equipment for genetic manipulation and other bio/chemical processes - but they have almost no knowledge of the *rest* of physics. Only some rudimentary stuff about "electron demons" running through copper. And there are no real animals on this planet. And the people now think the orbiting spaceship is their god.
The plot in this book is quite good, and the setting made it excellent.
There will be no plot spoilers here, just some thoughts on the world building, etc. If you like figuring it out by yourself, or enjoying a slower reveal, don't read on. :)
In summary, the name might as well be Cargo Cult: The Book. That is an idea I'd always liked - the original cargo cults were interesting enough. The first time I'd read something like this in a sci-fi, it was in Asimov's Foundation. But here, it's the central tenet the world is built upon.
People were brought to a hostile planet by a spaceship still orbiting in the sky. They still have and very much use equipment for genetic manipulation and other bio/chemical processes - but they have almost no knowledge of the *rest* of physics. Only some rudimentary stuff about "electron demons" running through copper. And there are no real animals on this planet. And the people now think the orbiting spaceship is their god.
The plot in this book is quite good, and the setting made it excellent.