Friday, November 5, 2021

Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidon's Children #1) by Alastair Reynolds ★★★★★

Whales swimming in space with the planet below and moons around them with the caption The Panspermian Imperative: To Assist in the Proliferation of all Living Organisms into Deep Space

Un-for-gett-able. 

A new millennium foundation work of solarpunk and afrofuturism.  It’s hard to believe this has not been snapped up and made into a series.  Fools! 

A futuristic paining of an aquanaut with the caption Lin Wei
‘Poseidon’s children,’ he repeated. ‘Is that supposed to mean something?’ 
‘We came through. That’s all. We weathered the absolute worst that history could throw at us, and we thrived. Now it’s time to start doing something useful with our lives.’ 

A comic book graphic image of an african woman with space accents in black and yellow with the caption Eunice Akinya
‘And I know what it feels like to imagine going further. To hold that incredible, dangerous thought in my mind, if only for an instant. To think: what if I don’t go home? What if I just keep on travelling? Watching that pale-blue dot fall ever further away, until the darkness swallowed it and there was no turning back. Until Earth was just a blue memory.’ 

Unforgettable
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