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Book · 2025
Lyneham
As Earth dies, twelve-year-old Henry travels with his father and siblings to a distant primordial moon. While awaiting his mother’s arrival on a later ship, the family uncovers disturbing evidence that she reached the moon millennia earlier and left behind a warning.
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The reviewer finds it impressive how Westerboer created a fascinating world convincing in its biological and geological details, while crafting consistently complex characters. Here both the science and fiction elements work harmoniously, says Kämmerlings, who emphatically recommends the book.
Richard Kämmerlings on Perlentaucher Reviewer Hartmut Kasper engages with interest in this vision of the future. Nils Westerboer's sci-fi novel is set on the distant moon Perm, where humanity has fled after ruining Earth. According to Kasper, Westerboer describes with great inventiveness the peculiarities of this moon, inhabited by invisible creatures.
Hartmut Kasper on Perlentaucher A good science fiction novel needs three things: credible character development, elaborate world-building, and an exciting plot. With Lyneham, author Nils Westerboer has more than fulfilled all three criteria and is already one of my favorites for the best SF book of the year.
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