Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley
Published by Orbit and out now
First contact was not supposed to be like this. The first intelligent species to encounter Mankind attacked without warning and swarmed locust-like through the solar system. Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable. With little hope of halting the savage invasion, Earth’s last, desperate roll of the dice was to send out three colony ships, seeds of Earth, to different parts of the galaxy. Earth may perish but the human race would live on …somewhere. 150 years later, the human colony on the planet Darien has established a new world for Humanity and forged a peaceful relationship with the planet’s indigenous race, the scholarly, enigmatic Uvovo. But there are secrets buried beneath the surface of Darien’s forest moon. Secrets that go back to an apocalyptic battle fought between ancient forerunner races at the dawn of galactic civilisation…
There has been some mixed reviews of Seeds of Earth. Nothing terrible but some interesting comments like ‘Black and white villains and heroes and no character truly worth remembering so far, but so what, the novel is a lot of fun and I am looking forward to the next book. ‘ and ‘this is still a really good, enjoyable and compelling book, written with verve and more than a little humour, which allows it to transcend its influences and overcome its weaknesses’
So it has some flaws. I can live with that. I must admit that I’m very much in a Neal Asher sci-fi mindset – so this might not be the next sci-fi story I pick up but maybe it’ll be the one after I’ve cleared my head with something a little different.
Reviews:
Fantasy Book Critic
Walker of Worlds
GoodReads
theguardian
Bookgeeks.co.uk
sffworld
TheBookBag.co.uk
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