Black Seeds: SF Novelette

I liked a lot of the concepts in this book, and it certainly was creative given that it riffs on Avatar and is also maybe a mashup of Speaker for the Dead and military sci-fi. It manages to paint a picture of peace and hope alongside the warlike images, showing that all things have duality.

Here are some quotes of the descriptive style:
“His voice was indulgent and deep and sounded like the rumbling of an old diesel engine.”
“At that moment, the windows exploded and through the rain of the shining glass bits, dozens of small black creatures, like wild furies, cannoned into the interior of the vehicle.”

I particularly liked the use of “cannoned” in that sentence.

I didn't like the opening, which felt like infodump backstory, and I wasn't 100% keen on the structure.

But I did find the book refreshingly heartening and creative.