Michael Barnes
We begin soon after the conclusion of the previous novella The Annual Migration of Clouds with our protagonist nineteen year old Reid Graham now inside Howse University, she roomates with the only other one of this intake who requested to share a room, she discovers the others in the community who would rather stay here and begins to realise why no one returns to their community after attending Howse. But with the revelations about the disease Cad the mysterious mind-altering parasitoid from the first book the questions becomes is it really a choice.
I read a review by Helena Ramsaroop and found it expresses how I feel better than I could. "This book tackles what we owe to each other as humans sharing a planet. Every action is a choice, and not helping others when you have the power and resources to do so is also a choice. Similar to how most of us are baffled by the inaction of our peers who aren’t standing in solidarity with oppressed peoples, and the continued complicity in the suffering of people across the world by those in power, Reid struggles to understand the choices of the university when she has experienced the suffering of life beyond Howse’s walls firsthand".
We begin soon after the conclusion of the previous novella The Annual Migration of Clouds with our protagonist nineteen year old Reid Graham now inside Howse University, she roomates with the only other one of this intake who requested to share a room, she discovers the others in the community who would rather stay here and begins to realise why no one returns to their community after attending Howse. But with the revelations about the disease Cad the mysterious mind-altering parasitoid from the first book the questions becomes is it really a choice.
I read a review by Helena Ramsaroop and found it expresses how I feel better than I could. "This book tackles what we owe to each other as humans sharing a planet. Every action is a choice, and not helping others when you have the power and resources to do so is also a choice. Similar to how most of us are baffled by the inaction of our peers who aren’t standing in solidarity with oppressed peoples, and the continued complicity in the suffering of people across the world by those in power, Reid struggles to understand the choices of the university when she has experienced the suffering of life beyond Howse’s walls firsthand".