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Sue Burke (Author), Caitlin Davies (Narrator), Daniel Thomas May (Narrator),

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Escaping conflict on Earth, an idealistic group of settlers arrive on a distant planet - Pax - with plans for a perfect society.

The world they discover is rich with life, but this is not the Eden they were hoping for. The plants on Pax are smart - smart enough to domesticate, and even slaughter, its many extraordinary animals.

To survive, the colonists realise that they must strike bargains of their own. But if they are to make Pax their home, they must go further, searching for a way to communicate and coexist with these utterly alien intelligences.

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14 hours and 46 minutes
Author

Sue Burke
Narrator

Caitlin Davies, see all
Audible release date

9 August 2018
Language

English
Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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B07DY3R3NF
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	14 hours and 46 minutes
Author	Sue Burke
Narrator	Caitlin Davies, Daniel Thomas May
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	09 August 2018
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07DY3R3NF
Best Sellers Rank	16,185 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 27 in Genetic Engineering Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 48 in Space Exploration Science Fiction 94 in Hard Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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Melissa Robbie

New world, new encounters, moral dilemmas.

Reviewed in Australia on 1 March 2019

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An enjoyable fast paced read, of humans trying to flourish on a new world and the other sentience they encounter. There are some philosophies lightly sprinkled through, but they don’t weigh it down. Each generation is seen through a new person’s eyes but the handover is not jarring. I enjoyed it.

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A fresh take on an old dilemma: how would an alien species compare to ourselves?

Reviewed in Australia on 16 January 2019

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In her forst published novel, Sue Burke considers first contact and the concept of interspecies cooperation from a fresh and exciting angle, showing the struggles of the story's people over several generations and asking the reader to consider several hard questions along the way. The book's furst two chapters start slow, but the story quickly becomes more interesting as it progresses. Overall, A great read that kept me guessing.

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ljm

Really interesting ideas, really clumsily communicated

Reviewed in Australia on 10 October 2019

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The author has a had a brilliant series of thought-questions: what is the aliens were plants? How would communication work when surivival is in play?
But infuriatingly the book is constructed as a series of novellas, and each is drawn together with a deus-ex resolution. The charaters are frustratingly flimsy, the plot aimlessly wanders from fun thought-question to thought-question.
Sadly cannot recommend - I've not yet been able to finish it.

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DarrenK

A Good and Different Read

Reviewed in Australia on 26 September 2019

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I bought this book by accident by double tapping. Was a $1-99 well spent.!!!!

It is a complicated yet simple book that I found compelling and hard to put down.

Essentially it is a novel about human behaviour in a new environment and learning how to adapt/survive in a place where plants are sentient. The characters are diverse, interesting and complicated I like the first person narrative style from an individual of each generations perspective.

I am looking forward to the follow up book.

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DJM

Great storytelling

Reviewed in Australia on 1 June 2019

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Classic syfy setting with a story told economically and compassionately and it is heartening to read a story where humans resettle, adapt and become an improved race.

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Adrian Faccioni

Really clever take on meeting an advanced civilisation

Reviewed in Australia on 21 March 2020

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Smart plants, very interesting concept.
Also the big time and generational jumps were quite interesting.
I would have liked to have read more about the ecology, more details on all the main animals in the story and how they came to being.

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Interesting , thoughtful and intelligent

Reviewed in Australia on 23 August 2019

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A really interesting concept, well put together and very well researched. I will look out for more of Sue Burke's work.

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Stephanie

Excellent

Reviewed in Australia on 10 December 2018

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A novel written over many generations through many points of view and very well done. I’m wishing for an epilogue right now, I want to read more!

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M. King

Utter tripe

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 February 2019

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A bunch of rich hipsters escape a doomed Earth to set up a commune on a planet far far away.

Peace and love and living as one with nature are on the cards, except that within a generation parents are murdering and raping kids for the vaguest of reasons. The first big failing of the book for me was that there’s no depth and no attempt to explain at a psychological level how this could happen.

Anyway this bunch of losers find an intelligent plant who stops them all being dead in a week but who they don’t trust. There’s much made by others of the first contact element but really our magic marrow does all the work...it’s not an in-depth piece like Arrival .

Then they meet a bunch of aggressive cannabalistic savages and decide to renew their ethos of piece love etc etc, regardless of the fact that they are always bickering with each other. (And killing each other) so the obvious happens and some of the savages do what they do best...until all is saved by the charismatic carrot...who some of our motley group still don’t trust.

It’s simplistic, shallow nonsense that barely holds your interest and the characters are thinly drawn and unsympathetic...unless you have a penchant for stupid people.

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Anonymous

Dense writing, poorly developed characters and a complate failure in imagery of an alien world.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2020

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An interesting concept however, I found the writing flimsy and dense. The extremly small print didn't help. What I missed here were well developed characters. I love sci-fi but I felt this novel missed to expand the alien side of it which had a potential and the rest is pretty ordinary human with ocasional references to the alien world. It may be just me but I couldn't realy get the pucture of the Snowine nor the 'buildings' or the surounding/setting nor characters, all allong, which for a sci-fi book exploring a new setlement on the alien planet is quite disapointing. The characters, move, talk, explain, get ill, die, debate but action is dead in an hasy, badly built/described world. I have struggled along through endlesly long sentences that didn't say much and pushed my imagination to the limits but couldn't get much from the writing to help me along. It made me wonder who edited and formated the writing as it felt sub-standard. A misleading advert on front cover ( The Arthur C Ckarke Award) is not really an award but the book was only shortlisted for it (quite a difference). The book consists if several novelas, each themed with a new generation of settlers.It may have worked but the many characters came and went and I didn't feell interested/intregued/ invested in a single one. I rarely write a comment, especially a negative one but I guess, I was patricularly dissapointed with this book.

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Original, multi-generational first contact - worth a read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 March 2018

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It took me a while to get into this book. It's unusual because it doesn't follow the traditional narrative arc but instead covers six generations of colonisers of a new planet. Once I got used to this format I really loved it, not only because of the complex, original interplay between the species on the planet, but because of the extended timescale which removes you a little from the individual characters and helps you think on a species level. Typically sci-fi books about new planets leave me frustrated because I feel it's only a snapshot of a bigger story. This book lets you explore so much more than, both in its depth of thought on the ecosystem on the planet and on the development of a nascent civilisation. I was constantly challenged to figure out whether what was happening in each chapter was a 'good' or a 'bad' thing. Really interesting. Worth a read.

18 people found this helpful

R. Murphy

What a great book!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2019

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Perhaps some would say that the main character is a bit unusual, and that's true (no spoilers). But this is a great book about an advance colonization party on a new planet who encounter some pretty strange stuff until they ally with an unusual local inhabitant. I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was a great read, and I see that the book has now been nominated for many awards. Treat yourself!

12 people found this helpful

S. Mitchell

Intelligent and different Sci-Fi writing.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 March 2019

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Sue Burke writes really well and gives us a well thought out story with good pacing and interesting characters. An intelligent plant on an alien planet, where human settlers struggle to survive without its help, is so different from the usual space battles for domination of the galaxy. The extended generational timescale of the book is satisfying, showing how the settlers adapt to a completely strange world without all the benefits of technology. Sue Burke's writing reminds me of Naomi Mitchison and Ursula LeGuin, which is a very good thing! A good read which I recommend.

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