I don’t know how Christopher Paolini managed to fit so much complicated exposition into the text naturally, but when I realised how easily I’d picked up the jargon I was really impressed. I didn’t use it, and I found this book perfectly accessible without a hint of info-dumping. There’s a helpful glossary in the back of the book. I’m not going into details because I don’t want to spoil anything, but the way that the humans respond to the threat of first contact feels uh…. But thus far they’ve been alone in the universe. In To Sleep in a Sea of Stars humans have been expanding and colonising and spreading as far as they can with the faster-than-light (FTL) technology that they’ve developed.
#Sleep in a sea of stars movie#
I don’t know if I’ve ever actually read a book that’s wholly focused on first contact before, but it’s one of my favourite movie concepts and whenever it’s glossed over in sci-fi I’m sulking hard about it, so to read a book that’s entirely based on first contact is incredible to me. First contact? Weird symbiotic alien relationships? Snarky ships? Check, check, check. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars hit every single one of my favourite sci-fi features. This year I’ve started to really hit my stride with sci-fi and I think it might have finally beaten out fantasy as my favourite genre (blame Tor entirely for that, with Murderbot, Gideon the Ninth and this book). At no point in this book could I predict what was going to happen next. In hindsight I think that that might have been the best thing I could have done. I’m not sure I’d even read the blurb but I knew it was an adult sci-fi from Christopher Paolini and that was enough for me. I honestly didn’t know one thing about the plot. I went into this book almost completely blind. Her journey to discover the truth about the alien civilization will thrust her into the wonders and nightmares of first contact, epic space battles for the fate of humankind, and the farthest reaches of the galaxy. But when xenobiologist Kira Navárez finds an alien relic beneath the surface of the world, the outcome transforms her forever and will alter the course of human history.
It was supposed to be a routine research mission on an uncolonized planet. Trigger Warnings: non-consent to medical procedures, death, torture, emetophobia (one scene but real gross), loss of limb, light body horror. Thanks to Tor.com for the review copy of this incredible book, it hasn’t affected my honest opinion. The chances of me rereading this before it comes out is ridiculously high. An adult space epic from Christopher Paolini? Must read, and I loved it. I was obsessed with Eragon as a child (honestly so much of the first book I ever wrote was Eragon inspired), though I still haven’t finished the entire series, so when I heard the announcement for To Sleep in a Sea of Stars I knew I had to have it. Fighting wasn’t her thing she wanted to learn.
All she wanted to do was her job, and the universe kept conspiring to prevent it.
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