Review: An interesting sci-fi tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2011
This is a well-crafted sci-fi tale. Earthlings land on a planet that seems very fertile, but as they try to grow crops, nothing grows. Then, natives of the planet, Alaahi, non-corporeal spiritual beings appear. They say that they also had problems with the land until they gave up their bodies. The ground does not want to produce for the earthlings. However, if each earthling joins by an umbilical cord to an Alaahi, the ground will produce. Many, but not all the earthlings agree. After they join together, the ground begins to produce.But other earthlings claim they have been duped. Ask yourselves, they say, why did the Alaahi do this? What do they really want? Do you really believe that they did this for altruistic reasons? Abrams, a leader of the dissenter group tells the linked earthlings that he can help them.Neya, age 16, sees her father stick his hand into a fire and scream in agony; and she watches his Alaahi symbiant die. She rushes for help to Elijah, age 18, and his father and discovers that the father also has a burned hand, and he and his symbiant are dead. Readers will discover if the dissenters are correct, what is going on, and what will happen.