Review: Review: The New World, by Patrick Ness
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2013
This was a good short story that has made me want to check out the rest of the trilogy that goes along with it. While I know it was a short story, I feel like I was left wanting just a little more at the end. At the same time, I understand that it's more to lead you into the series and not to be a fully independent stand alone. Overall that didn't alter my enjoyment of the story.I really liked the concept that this was a group of people who grew up never knowing what living on a planet was like. In a way it's the opposite of our view on most science fiction dealing with primarily with space travel. We're a people who don't know what it's like to be in space or on a spaceship. The characters in this story never knew was it's like to be on a planet, with real gravity, weather, a sun, etc. I think that's one of the things that grew me into the story.I hope the series explores this a little more, as well as gets as exciting as I feel it can get with the new experiences of planet-life can bring.