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Three space travelers from Earth become stranded on a planet that is always dark - Eden. The living plants and animals are Eden's source of natural light. Over the years many children are born into the "Family"or the descendants of the three Earthers who involuntarily found Eden. And yes, many of the children have birth-defects due to inbreeding.

One of the Family - Johnny Redlatern believes that the Family needs to move or else will face eventual starvation due to over-hunting.

What follows is the rest of the story.

I will continue on with this series. I thought the plot was original and it kept my interest.


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Dark Eden Chris Beckett 2015804138680 Books Reviews

This book is an odd duck. In the end, I didn't like it but you might. The plot is pretty clockwork and you're 150 pages in before it even starts. It seems as if the characters were invented (and sometimes reinvented in the middle) to advance the plot rather than the plot unfolding from the characters. If you like heavy handed allegories, this is right up your alley -- Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man driven by stereotypical male and female personality attributes. They seem more like archetypes than people. The back cover blurb hints at a dark truth about Eden that will be discovered, and it is, on nearly the last page, but if you haven't been sleepwalking through the book you already guessed it 200 pages earlier. If you like this sort of thing, it is worth reading. In the end, I didn't and I won't be continuing the series.
I first encountered Chris Beckett's Dark Eden world in a short story of the same name in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about 8 years ago. That story is legendary history when the events of this book take place. That story is also a bit more enjoyable, with spaceships and a mysterious planet.

This story is enjoyable, but it's fundamentally a coming-of-age story. As such there are frequently times (as an already-of-age adult) I wanted to skip entire chapters. The over-arching story is definitely interesting, but sometimes the internal monologues of teenagers are not.

As to the overarching story, two people were trapped on a near-paradise planet and they had kids, and now it's 150+ years later. All language, culture, history, and knowledge are filtered through just two people. All genetics too (biologically not possible, I'm certain). They live by certain principles and rules handed down to them, but those principles and rules did not anticipate 150 years of population expansion. In fact, the original mating pair expected to be rescued. One young man rebels against authority...

In all I enjoyed the story enough to finish it and will read the next one.
Chris Beckett's third novel offers an intriguing science fiction setting and a thoughtful take on the ambiguities of leadership. All the five hundred residents of Eden are members of one family, descendents of the now-almost-mythical astronauts Tommy and Angela, who taught them to wait for the rescue from Earth that will surely come someday. But one young man, John Redlantern, is certain that things cannot go on as they have, and will take great and terrible steps to force an evolution in Family's way of life. The way of life envisioned here isn't especially plausible-- the time that has passed since Tommy and Angela isn't really enough for the development of the kind of culture Beckett wants to explore, and like many invented societies Family has too much unity of behavior and ideology for a non-totalitarian order. The novel is also longer than it needs to be, padded by unnecessary incidents and unnecessary elaborations of characters' emotional states. But Eden is a strange and atmospheric world-- dark indeed, so that flora and fauna must make their own light, which lends everything a disturbing and haunting quality. And John Redlantern makes for a fascinating protagonist. Beckett is interested in the sinister as well as the noble aspects of leadership, and uses the contrast between John's narration and those of his loyal but not worshipful followers to consider the ways in which the desire for power is as self-serving as it is selfless. There's some one-sided satire on the role of religion in politics, but generally Beckett is even-handed without being wishy-washy. This is a thoroughly ambitious novel, and though in many ways its reach exceeds its grasp, it deserves serious consideration by all readers of thoughtful science fiction.
The reason I say "simple" is because, at the heart of this novel is a pretty formulaic plot and very simple language. It's the classic hero's journey, and there are many borrowed elements. Sort of like The Hobbit meets Planet of the Apes, or something like that. But this simplicity is "deceptive" in that by showing different points of view, the author manages to provide a lot of depth to the main characters, and engages you in the story line all the way through the book. Even though I knew, in general, what was coming, I still read it all the way through in 2 sittings - something I don't do very often. So, yes, I found it a very good read.

The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that the language bothered me a little all the way through the book. Although it was interesting to try and deduce the origin of some of the words (you'll see what I mean if you read the book), the language involves repetition of some words. Sometimes they are repeated twice, sometimes 3 times and sometimes one repetition is italicized. I'm not sure what the purpose was for that device, but I found it distracting.
Three space travelers from Earth become stranded on a planet that is always dark - Eden. The living plants and animals are Eden's source of natural light. Over the years many children are born into the "Family"or the descendants of the three Earthers who involuntarily found Eden. And yes, many of the children have birth-defects due to inbreeding.

One of the Family - Johnny Redlatern believes that the Family needs to move or else will face eventual starvation due to over-hunting.

What follows is the rest of the story.

I will continue on with this series. I thought the plot was original and it kept my interest.