Review: A very good beginnig of a novel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 1, 2011
This is a short science fiction story that amazon offers for free to kindle users. A convoy of people who escaped from some planet years ago are searching for a new planet, a new home. A thirteen year old girl, her mother who is a pilot and her father who is an engineer, are chosen as a scouting party to land in a new planet to see if the others can live there. She is well-trained for the job and is quite intelligent, but she exhibits the traits of a teen-ager, reluctance to leave the place she thinks of as home, her friends, her school. As she is about to leave, one of her professors gives her a gift that she should open when she arrives at the potential new home.All of the people on the convoy, including her parents, continue to use the word "hope." They hope that the new planet will be suitable for them. They hope that the previously-sent scouting party survived and they will find them. They hope that this new scouting party will arrive safely. Her father told her that hope is a terrifying thing, but life is so much more terrifying without it. What is the gift that the professor gave her? How will it help her? Is hope something that people should have? What is hope? How should people use it?