No Life but Immortality: Book 1 of Geryon's Code Cycle by Liudmila BrusMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Futuristic Martian human colonists search for what has happened to their home planet of Earth.
No Life But Immortality is the first book in author Liudmila Brus’s science fiction series, Geryon’s Code Cycle and it is a densely built tale of a future world with humans populating Mars, Earth, and the moon. When the Mars colonies lose contact with their home planet of Earth, and an exploratory space mission to determine Earth’s status goes missing and presumed lost, the governing council must decide whether or not to follow up with a second attempt. Eventually, armed with additional resources, a new ship goes in search of the lost mission and its crew with unexpected and life-or-death results.
This story, while having moments of action and suspense, is more of a world-building and investigative sci-fi mystery. I enjoyed the individual storylines offered at the start on which the main plot was built. Each main character is engaging in their own way and someone you want to know more about. However, they appear in the story over a number of years, and the author surprised me with how they finally interconnected - most not in life or face-to-face.
The narrative is dense with discussion and description and isn’t one to choose for light reading. At times, I had difficulty staying with the story because of execution issues: unusual wording or even wrong words used entirely. But the end result was worth the little extra effort.
I recommend NO LIFE BUT IMMORTALITY to science fiction readers.
I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving an Advanced Review Copy through WOW! Women On Writing Book Tours.
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