Loved itI think it's really fascinating and I think Beckett does a really good job of imagining what a very kind of hardscrabble society might look like with the genetic challenges that are described in the book.
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Dark Eden (2012)
Others: Positive Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Aware 2013. The story of the Family, 532 descendants of two abandoned explorers who huddle, slowly starving, in the warmth of geothermal trees, confined to one barely habitable valley of an alien, sunless world.
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- 9781848874633
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- 404 pages
Genres: science fiction
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