Semiosis

The book is like a collection of short stories about the founding and development of a colony ship from Earth that lands on a planet they call Pax. The goal is to create a new Earth without making the same mistakes as they did on Earth. In a way, this book is reminiscent of Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, but the stories go together much more directly and sequentially. They were not written independently like TMC. This book is also about first contact, with the life on the planet and with another alien race that had settled on the planet about 400 years earlier. It's a marvelous book which sucked me in right at the beginning and held me until the end. It was nominated for four awards, including the Golden Tentacle which is awarded for a debut novel that meets the criteria of progressive, intelligent, and entertaining.

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