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A review by brucefarrar
Hurricane Moon by Alexis Glynn Latner
4.0
Just before leaving Earth forever, the starship Aeon has a request to take on another passenger. Chief Medical Officer Catharin Gault must approve the addition of Joseph Devreze to the crew. It’s not an easy call. She finds him obnoxious and full of himself, but more than that she’s appalled by his ethics, or rather his lack of them. Here’s a brilliant molecular biologist, a world renowned expert on DNA, with a Nobel Prize who’s made a fortune creating sea dogs, dogs with flippers and gills so they can breathe underwater. As he puts it, “Novel organisms are very profitable. And people pay outrageous sums for cosmetic genetic alterations, such as calico hair.”
Much later Gault is relieved that she approved him for the mission, because the Aeon has been in space centuries beyond the safe limit for its crew to remain in stasis. Their DNA has begun to decay, and the colonists that have finally made it to the new world of Green are in danger of being both the first and the last generation of colonists.
Latner’s tale of interstellar exploration and colonization is fascinating, believable, and thought provoking. The science is hard and the romance appropriately stimulating.
Much later Gault is relieved that she approved him for the mission, because the Aeon has been in space centuries beyond the safe limit for its crew to remain in stasis. Their DNA has begun to decay, and the colonists that have finally made it to the new world of Green are in danger of being both the first and the last generation of colonists.
Latner’s tale of interstellar exploration and colonization is fascinating, believable, and thought provoking. The science is hard and the romance appropriately stimulating.