Hey, This is super heartwarming, but should we maybe finish escaping from prison now? "
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Noemi is 17 and a soldier who has just volunteered for a suicide run in an attempt to protect her planet from over populated, dying Earth.
Abel is a mech, the only one of his kind, who has spent 30 years stuck in an air lock faster being abandoned by his creator.
Together they will learn and grow whilst trying to accomplish a mission to save the lives of the folk on the Masada run.
This book was a fun read. Serious matters (religious fundamentalism, terrorism, environmentalism) are covered a part of the plot but they don't drive it. The humour comes through without being in your face. One of my favourite lines comes from Virginia, a tech friend made on the way, "Hey, This is super heartwarming, but should we maybe finish escaping from prison now? "
It makes use of the religious freedom that powers Genesis to drive Noemi character. Raised on a planet where religion is important but even the atheists and agnostics get group meetings and children are encouraged to find their own faith. Noemi gas doubts we hear about which including making the following comment "it's Always seemed to her that her prayers are never answered, that nobody up there has ever heard her pleas. But God must be listening after all. "
Noemi is 17 and a soldier who has just volunteered for a suicide run in an attempt to protect her planet from over populated, dying Earth.
Abel is a mech, the only one of his kind, who has spent 30 years stuck in an air lock faster being abandoned by his creator.
Together they will learn and grow whilst trying to accomplish a mission to save the lives of the folk on the Masada run.
This book was a fun read. Serious matters (religious fundamentalism, terrorism, environmentalism) are covered a part of the plot but they don't drive it. The humour comes through without being in your face. One of my favourite lines comes from Virginia, a tech friend made on the way, "Hey, This is super heartwarming, but should we maybe finish escaping from prison now? "
It makes use of the religious freedom that powers Genesis to drive Noemi character. Raised on a planet where religion is important but even the atheists and agnostics get group meetings and children are encouraged to find their own faith. Noemi gas doubts we hear about which including making the following comment "it's Always seemed to her that her prayers are never answered, that nobody up there has ever heard her pleas. But God must be listening after all. "