I wanted to like this more than I did. It is reminiscent of early LeGuin–practical sci-fi, with an often cool detachment. But I couldn’t get into it deeply, emotionally.
I really liked the way the author created a full world and real characters, especially given the premise of the novel, one in which a small group of survivors of planet annihilation have to rebuild their lives and their gene pool on an alien world, inhabited by other hominids.
The small group of survivors are a lot like Vulcans in temperament, so I kept easily imagining this story as one that might happen after Vulcan’s destruction.
The main Vulcan finds his Uhura, which is rewarding, though I thought the two leads were coy about their attraction for each other for way too long.
