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The City of the Sun: Daedalus Mission, Book Four
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The fourth landing of the Daedalus Mission confronts Alex and his companions with a colonial culture seemingly modeled on a classic Utopian dream, but all of its inhabitants are infected with a mysterious alien parasite, and they no longer seem entirely human. Are they being controlled by the parasite, or has the parasite merely enabled them to transform themselves? Can the visitors from Earth avoid infection themselves, and what will the consequences be if they cannot? For once, the risks of the contact seem potentially far greater than any possible reward--but that still leaves the visitors with the necessity of passing judgment and deciding what to do, in an exceedingly awkward situation. Daedalus Mission, Book Four.
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Brian Stableford
Brian Stableford lives in Reading, England.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Freaky.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Disappointing. This is the 4th of the Daedalus series. Daedalus is on a mission to revisit long-isolated human colonies to see if they've survived and hence if colonization is in humanity's future. Each short novel is a different mission, and each mission is a puzzle to be solved. The running theme is a debate between the cynical but sincere main protagonist and Nathan, the politically savvy ostensible leader. Until the halfway point, I thought this would be the strongest entry in the series so far. The puzzle, involving a circularly-walled city modeled on Campanella's City of the Sun, inhabited by laconic humans sporting a black parasitic network, was intriguing. Unfortunately, once the puzzle is resolved at about the halfway mark, the book deteriorates into a series of long unconvincing speeches about what must or must not be done, first between the Daedalus crew, then with the planet's natives. Unsatisfying to say the least, especially after a relatively solid beginning.
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