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Average rating3.6
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. They left Earth to save humanity. They’ll have to save themselves first. It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect. As the mystery unfolds on the ship, poignant flashbacks reveal how Asuka came to be picked for the mission. Despite struggling through training back on Earth, she was chosen to represent Japan, a country she only partly knows as a half-Japanese girl raised in America. But estranged from her mother back home, The Phoenix is all she has left. With the crew turning on each other, Asuka is determined to find the culprit before they all lose faith in the mission—or worse, the bomber strikes again.
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Very interesting, creative, thought provoking, and scarily possible futuristic debut. I just currently don't have the patience to write a review but this one is a definite recommendation from me, if you like your sci-fi to be more personal.
I can't believe I didn't see that the author was the imposter this whole time.
It was ok. I would have liked it a lot more without the jumping back and forth in time, every time I started to really get into it we would jump to another point in the timeline and every time I lost a little bit of interest.
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