Ryan M. (epsilonindi) reviewed on 9/9/2007

Helpful Score: 1

Story: An interstellar spaceship is marooned mid-journey, and the crew must build an entire moon colony from scratch (including the moon) in order to restock their antimatter stores for the rest of the mission. But how will these newly-born moon colonists, a world apart from the god-like nearly-immortal crew in the ship orbiting above, take to being used and then discarded for the sake of the greater mission? Will they cooperate with their benefactors, or revolt?
Review: A little flat. Interesting hard-SF storytelling regarding the terraforming projects and life aboard the generation ship. Good dramatic tension about time dilation and relationships. The characters were a little too 2D, however, and it was hard seeing them as real people (especially the orbiting crew, who seemed to lack a lot of redeeming human qualities). Two stars.

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