Review: Must read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2013
Vitalis is a dangerous planet. It is also a great setting for space opera.Mother Vitalis, the planet's Gaia-like global intelligence, is murderous and malign. She is becoming increasingly draconian in Her evil as time goes by. However, She allows a handful of bedraggled pioneers to survive on Vitalis, including our heroine Kira.In "Vitalis: Provenance", a vile infestation finds it way onto the spaceship Independence, and breaches containment--think Alien, but scarier and even more fraught. This story is intertwined with Kira's adventures on Vitalis. Actually, Kira seems accidentally to have caused the problems on board the Independence, a few sample-shards of Vitalian corruption being enough to cause mayhem amongst naive spacefarers. Oops. Will anyone survive the tragedy?