Walter H. reviewed Starship Mine by Mr Peter Cawdron
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5 stars
I'm going to preface this with the fact that I cannot stand to read first person written pieces of fiction. There are not many people who can pull this off. And having said that, [a:Peter Cawdron|5252525|Peter Cawdron|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1320085669p2/5252525.jpg] is now one of those on a very short list of authors that I will actually read a first person POV.
[b:Starship Mine|29734396|Starship Mine|Peter Cawdron|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1459724357s/29734396.jpg|49787405] inspired me, broke my heart, shattered it further, and then put me back together again. The very way of how Cawdron described alien contact is truly something that I believe could happen one day. Because we are creatures of both energy and mass, and because moving our mass between two distant stars would take eons, the thought of traveling via energy is just an amazing concept. It was inspiring that three people out of this planets 7+ billion could make it.
And then... Oh, the heartbreak. I won't …
I'm going to preface this with the fact that I cannot stand to read first person written pieces of fiction. There are not many people who can pull this off. And having said that, [a:Peter Cawdron|5252525|Peter Cawdron|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1320085669p2/5252525.jpg] is now one of those on a very short list of authors that I will actually read a first person POV.
[b:Starship Mine|29734396|Starship Mine|Peter Cawdron|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1459724357s/29734396.jpg|49787405] inspired me, broke my heart, shattered it further, and then put me back together again. The very way of how Cawdron described alien contact is truly something that I believe could happen one day. Because we are creatures of both energy and mass, and because moving our mass between two distant stars would take eons, the thought of traveling via energy is just an amazing concept. It was inspiring that three people out of this planets 7+ billion could make it.
And then... Oh, the heartbreak. I won't give a lot of it away, other than to say my heart broke when James woke up in the hospital and realized what they had done to him - all because they didn't understand. That thing that made him so special that he could make the trip, not understood and cut out of him; it was like we were back to using medicinal practices from the 1700s.
I was truly not expecting the ending, however. That truly touched me, and left me with hope.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Please, please take the time to read it.
