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Reviewer:
Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com
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August 23, 2016
Feisty Pious Nun Astronauts
Investigate Crashed Alien Spaceship
A Review of
Karina Fabian Discovery
(Full Quiver Press, 2016)
[Advance Reader Copy] ISBN:
978-1-987970-01-2
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
I have
seen many changes take place in my 77 years of life on Planet Earth. I
remember a long time ago a Roman Catholic man saying that when he was a
boy he thought that the nuns who were his parochial school teachers had been
dropped down from Heaven! Since that time nuns have become ever more
human and feisty. By the time in the future in which Karina Fabian's new
SF novel Discovery is
set, there are nuns who are astronauts, and three of them play a major role in
the story, in which a team of scientists travels to the Kuiper Belt to
study an alien space ship which has crashed there. These nuns display an
interesting exciting mix of feistiness and intelligence and piety in their
interactions with the other astronauts, which you really have to read
to understand what I mean. However, you can have
too much of a good thing: in my humble opinion, Fabian prolongs this
phase of the story to where it becomes a surfeit. If you agree with me,
do not put down the book, but just say "Enough, Already!!"
and skip to the final section of the book where they investigate
the alien ship -- and WOW lots of surprises there!! This is an exciting
thought-provoking read!
The book
is scheduled for publication on September 18. Information on the author
is available on her website www.fabianspace.com
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