![]() ![]() War? Pandemic? We seem to be left to speculate on this. This review was amended on Decemto correct the setting of Lakeport, Idaho. To support the Guardian and the Observer by a copy at. ![]() Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is published by 4th Estate (20). Wouldn't Sybil's sensors be allowing them to monitor everything? Otherwise, what is the point of the experiment? So, when everyone starts dying, surely they would step in? As they did not, something must have made them unable to keep monitoring. Elizabeth Knox’s The Absolute Book is published by Michael Joseph. ![]() The book does not seem to explain why the people who set up the experiment seemed to have abandoned it. They all died of an Earth illness that somehow got in. This makes sense, because they would never stick with the experiment if they knew the Earth was just outside and they could escape. The crew thought they were heading to another star. I don't think this was because the world was uninhabitable, but because it was clearly heading that way in the long term (based on what the owls reveal in the atlas) and humankind needed to do the long term research to be able to evacuate at some point in the future. (view spoiler) [The experiment was about testing whether humans could live in a spacecraft ark and make it to another star system over multiple generations. ![]()
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