![]() Technological optimism is a common affliction of science fiction writers-at least the ones that don’t mumble in their beer about dystopian futures.) Like Heinlein’s juvenile novels, April describes a world in which all the kids are brilliant and independent-even the ones who lack a moral compass. (By the way, the book is set much too early-there is no chance so many large-scale space habitats could be built by 2083. The space habitats have developed an independent culture that is more purely democratic and libertarian than any of the religious tyrannies or corrupt corporate states on Earth. Earth politics is just as cutthroat and complicated as ever. There is also an evolved version of the International Space Station and a Lunar colony. ![]() April is a space-born resident of Mitsubishi 3, a large space habitat in Earth Orbit. ![]() It is a near-future coming of age story that owes very much to Robert A. ![]() Kindle, 2012.Īs far as I can tell, April is Mackey Chandler’s first novel and the first novel in a series that now has twelve volumes. ![]()
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