Title : Stranger

Author : JW Hicks

Genre : Short Story, Science Fiction

Review extract from review by: Geordianna

"Stranger review

This wasn't quite what I was expecting when I saw Science Fiction, but it does fit the genre. My only qualm here is that the people seem too naive too unworldly to have travelled to a new land by what I assume was a space ship. They seem more like pilgrims off the mayflower or earlier pioneers out on the prairie. But then I don't suppose many of the passengers on the Mayflower would have know how to build or sail a ship.

The voice of the narrator is good and consistent, and the act of laying out makes a good frame for the story which appears to be about evolution in action. The parallel story about loss of faith seems like a reversal of the current trend of increasing fundamentalism and denial of evolution.

The setting works for me, too, the problems plausible and I could still picture this land with its tainted soil and twin moons long after I finished the story.

Although this little story is complete in itself, I was left wanting more …”

Synopsis
Settlers on a new world have a stark choice, adaption or extinction.
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