{"id":367,"date":"2015-06-25T10:18:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T14:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2015-08-14T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T01:11:53","slug":"review-moonkind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silk-serif.com\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Review: Moonkind"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p>\"Review:Moonkind: Survivors of Ebola<\/strong> on April 17th, 2015
Pages:<\/strong> 358
Format:<\/strong> eARC<\/a>
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In another Century and a half, the world, as we know it, will be greatly
\nchanged. This book foresees changes that most of us could scarcely
\ndream of. It imagines a world where current international tensions
\nhave mostly dissolved, where continental solidarity has supplanted most national boundaries, and where global warming has actually abated. It is a time when space exploration is of prime importance and when robotically operated stations exist on our own Moon and on Mars and Venus..<\/p>\n

But several traditional earthly problems have not been resolved. One of these is the periodic emergence of infectious diseases that (by means of insidious mutations) have evaded all modern efforts to prevent or control them. Enter Q-strain, an astoundingly pernicious mutation of Ebola virus which, over the period of a few years, totally wipes out all humans on the Earth. There is time, however, in the interim, to transport the very earliest
\nstage (blastocysts) of the clones from many very accomplished humans to the robotic station on the Moon. (These clones had been acquired years before the epidemic and stored in suspended animation in liquid hydrogen).<\/p>\n

Roughly a century later, when the \u201call clear\u201d for absence of the Ebola Q-strain mutant on the Earth has been biologically verified, these \u201ccelebrity clones\u201d are given birth on the Moon and raised to adulthood by robotic guides and caretakers. The story then centers on the development of fourteen spirited \u201ccelebrity clones\u201d who must find ways to realistically coexist, and then to ultimately return a human presence to our now Ebola-free blue planet. This sounds like quite a challenge, and in fact, that\u2019s just what it is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>