Three stars because I really like the premise and the focus on science BUT, (1) as with the first book, the author dedicates one story line to a boy, and as with many US authors, kids can't die even if it would make sense in terms of narrative. Also, somehow, here as well, a boy is the big solver of the plot. That's just uninteresting and boring. And, that boy drugs up and kidnaps a woman who just happens to be petite and drags her to become part of some creepy harem and can't understand when the woman later does not treat him like a hero. Pass me the barf bucket.
(2) There is a lot more focus here on a small group of rangers one sniper. Said sniper cannot do anything without being reminded of some awful stuff he'd done in Brazil. And so, like Rose Nylund in the Golden Girls, constantly repeating "back in Saint Olaf", It's almost as if Leo is constantly going "back in Brazil". This gets repetitive and tedious.
I am also sorry that the main character of the first book takes a back seat in this one.
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Yikes zero stars.
This is a terrible book.
Full of liberal racism and cultural appropriation.
Sigh.
First of all, it regurgitates many commonly believed falsehoods in our society: that conservatives want a smaller government. Um no, smaller government would mean abortion was legal, same sex marriage was legal, transgender would be no big deal cause the government can't dictate your gender. What conservatives want is THEIR belief system applied to everyone, regardless of that human beings individual beliefs, which is the fascism this author seems so concerned with. We already have fascism, we have always had it, in fact the modern world is built on it. The West isn't a free or democratic society. We don't practice true or real democracy anymore than supposed communist countries practice communism. All countries are capitalist and we all practice our own fucked up versions of capitalism.
Also we do give tithes, we give way more than a fifth of our earned income, the non-wealthy do anyway, which is 99% of folks. It's just that in the modern world the poor give to the wealthy and are in return bullied for it. Rich people don't pay taxes. Worse yet they don't pay fair or living wages, forcing their employees to subsidize their desire to own a business. CEO's don't work 30,000 times harder than their staff. They actually do LESS work and steal the profit that their employees earned. It's feudalism given a new name and we're all so sure it's superior to any other form of government. Sigh. We have rampant poverty, homelessness, a prison population crisis and random mass shootings multiple times a week often involving children but sure Jan, how we do things is the best ever, in the world and history. (heavy sarcasm)
It's one thing to entertain this nonsense bullshit rhetoric in the 90's but these books are being written in the chump era. This book was released in 2018. So it just feels fucking ridiculous.
Our society is so broken that the poor pay for the rich. The rich buy their way into the few opportunities the poor have, as evidenced with the latest college cheating scandal. The richest among us, with the best schools and every opportunity have unintelligent kids. Rather thanhave those kids compete fairly with poorer kids, their parents just buy their way into the 1%. They just buy their kids way and we subsidize it.
We have folks dying of diabetes and asthma, because they can't afford their meds, while employers are so wealthy they are wasting money sending cars into space. Meanwhile citizens in their own country starve to death, go homeless, without medicine largely because wealthy people steal. Yet when we speak of entitlements it's about poor folks wanting to survive, not rich folks theft.
Also I know white people negate the guilt from their historical bullshit behavior by pretending that their racism and theft ushered in the modern world. It didn't though. The group that globally dominated and destroyed the planet, who's effects we all have to live through, weren't technologically advanced. West African people were enslaved for our knowledge. In addition to teaching Europeans how to grow cash crops, they also taught them about vaccinations and later under heavy colonization they taught them about c-sections. The Aztecs and Mayans had math far advanced from ANY we have today. They had the most accurate calendar ever, much more accurate than our silly calendar which can't be balanced and requires a leap year. Lake Titicaca is man made. They had floating cities that put Venice to shame. The current documented reed islands are all that's left of that technology. Europeans killed so many so quickly that much of the knowledge has been lost through the years. As Europeans conquered Arabic and North African Islamic cities, they burnt the books and destroyed the advanced knowledge these people had. It's not a question, we know that the least advanced people took over setting back the development of the modern world, not creating it. We could all be living in Wakanda if it weren't for ignorant Europeans conquering through largely luck and circumstance, not intelligence or advanced knowledge. Had they preserved the knowledge of the peoples they destroyed and rather than forcing those people to labor to survive, they might've been able to use their advance knowledge and intelligence to create a better world. This is not the best possible world, it's the least possible. Cause it's been lead for almost 500 years by those among us who know the least and are frightened and unbelievably xenophobic. So xenophobic and greedy that they create racism, to justify their nonsense.
I expect educated folks to know some of this and act on it. Instead this author pretends like oppression ushered in the modern world when history does not support that belief.
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Humans who don't fight their environment or each other have very advanced civilizations. History bears this truth.
Europeans did not evolve this way and are convinced that they are superior and by default the way they evolved is the best way. Only history and actual facts don't support this white supremacist thinking.
Case in point the Danish 'viking' attacks. The Danes are the least advanced of the European folks at that time. So they develop a smash and grab theft culture. That thinking takes over Europe and spreads with colonialism. They believe the way they evolved is the best way but history differs. The only part of Europe that was advanced, Rome & Greece, was near non european peoples whom they likely stole or traded knowledge with. If europeans were genetically more advanced than Daneland would've lead European history not Rome & Greece, both of which were cosmopolitan kingdoms, not European ones. Yet the author ignores actual facts and human history, in favor of white supremacist views that say the modern world developed because Europeans colonized and enslaved. Just so much yikes in this boring ass social experiment based novel.
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If Tomorrow Comes is written well, has good flow and the characters are really quite good. But while the over all plot isn't bad, in detail it is a mix of everything going wrong, complete gimmicky set ups and by the skin of their teeth survivals. Disbelief requires suspenders and belts to get through, and even both can't really hold. Arriving years late on a time critical mission, blown out of space, crash landing on a bombed planet, most of those who reach the planet get through gut reforesting, lack of almost all expected resources, three separate violent group actions by local residents, paranoid drugged misleadership by military command, survivalist kidnappings, not to mention plague and counter plague. Oh, I left out the ectopic pregnancy because there is after all only one, and the wounds and concussions, because not everybody gets one. And there is more. Nancy Kress has added a surprise set up for the survivors which may have an interesting impact on those who eventually make it back to earth. ( )