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On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony's erudite university--and Mossa's former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth's pre-collapse ecosystems.Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti's assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake--and, perhaps, their futures, together.… (more)
Investigator Mossa is researching the disappearance of a man, and when she follows his trail it leads to Valdegeld and her former girlfriend, a scholar of pre--collapse earth ecosystems. Pleiti is working towards the long-term goal of returning humanity to earth, hopefully doing less damage this time. The two of them have to work together and possibly find out what drove them apart to solve the puzzle and everything might change.
It's an interesting exploration of a possible future when humanity has to find somewhere else to live and how society might change when humanity lives abov a gas giant. it didn't engage me completely but I found it intersting. ( )
The setting is really original and cool, and I really wanted to root for the two protagonists and their relationship. And the mystery plot is interesting and resolves in a satisfying way. But something about the writing just didn't quite fit comfortably for my brain, and everything just felt a bit detached. ( )
For me, it needed a bit more world building at the front-end (a better use of Prologue, if one needs one at all). For a novella, I spent too much time trying to "see" the environment, scaffolding the information around the mystery, which drew me out of the story. The characters, though, are very interesting and I would be interested in reading more of their adventures. ( )
The man had disappeared from an isolated platform; the furthest platform eastward, in fact, on the 4°63' line, never a very popular ring.
Quotations
Attempting to approximate an idealized past is most certainly both futile and foolish, but individually disrupting what absolutely must be a collective endeavor is no better, and selfish as well. (p. 165)
Perhaps there's a discipline, or trans-discipline, of flexibility and reactiveness, or a calculation of principles involved in ecosytem survival rather than literal mimicking of known successes. (p. 165)
Last words
"It doesn't. You don't need to change. Because I have."
On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony's erudite university--and Mossa's former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth's pre-collapse ecosystems.Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti's assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake--and, perhaps, their futures, together.
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It's an interesting exploration of a possible future when humanity has to find somewhere else to live and how society might change when humanity lives abov a gas giant. it didn't engage me completely but I found it intersting. (