HuckleBuck411
This is not a fun science fiction read. It's a story told and then retold by Cormac Easton, a reporter sent as part of the crew of the Ishiguro on a doomed deep space mission. On the surface the reason for the DARPA mission is to try and reignite interest in manned space missions by sending the ship and its crew farther into space than anyone had gone before. It was to be a go out there and turn around and come back mission. The reader learns from the beginning that Easton is the only member of the seven-person crew to survive. The first telling of the story goes through the tragic mission and the unfortunate deaths of each of the other crew members one by one, but something strange occurs that allows Easton to relive the mission and secrets about what happened to the crew and the real goal of the mission are slowly revealed. This is a grim and depressing read in which the reader follows Easton as he goes through every step of the doomed mission twice but also follows the details around the destruction of his marriage.
This is not a fun science fiction read. It's a story told and then retold by Cormac Easton, a reporter sent as part of the crew of the Ishiguro on a doomed deep space mission. On the surface the reason for the DARPA mission is to try and reignite interest in manned space missions by sending the ship and its crew farther into space than anyone had gone before. It was to be a go out there and turn around and come back mission. The reader learns from the beginning that Easton is the only member of the seven-person crew to survive. The first telling of the story goes through the tragic mission and the unfortunate deaths of each of the other crew members one by one, but something strange occurs that allows Easton to relive the mission and secrets about what happened to the crew and the real goal of the mission are slowly revealed. This is a grim and depressing read in which the reader follows Easton as he goes through every step of the doomed mission twice but also follows the details around the destruction of his marriage.