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They never meant to come to Earth. They were never allowed to leave...
Welcome to Cottonwood.
Excerpt:
“You should have heard it, Kate. It was subtle, but it wasn’t my imagination. The guy spent five hours essentially telling us that the aliens are retarded.”
“Oh come on.”
“Not in so many words, but—hang on.” Sarah moved the paz to her other hand so that she could lay her right arm over Fagin’s back, since he was being insistent about it. “But he just really drilled it in,” she continued, resigned. “Over and over, really soft and gentle. ‘They’re not smart, they don’t take care of themselves, they need to be controlled.’”
Kate’s tiny image on the screen flickered as she shifted her own paz and had trouble restabilizing. The two weren’t exactly compatible anymore. She really needed to get a new one. “So? Maybe they do.”
“And maybe they don’t. Kate!” she said, trying to laugh through her frustration. “These people came to us in a spaceship! A planet full of stupid layabouts does not master intergalactic space travel!”
Kate’s image flickered again and snapped to black. She didn’t need it. She could hear the distraction in Kate’s voice, and the tight I’m-pretending-I’m-not-angry tone that had been her default setting pretty much since Sarah told her she was really moving to Cottonwood. “Okay, so the guy who’s been studying them for twenty years is wrong and Sarah Fowler, who hasn’t even met one yet, is right. Congratulations. You’re that good.”
Sarah felt herself blush. “It didn’t sound right, that’s all I’m saying. Some of the little things he said just...just really got to me.”
“Like what?” Kate asked, sounding concerned now and not big-sister patronizing.
“Like…Like he said that if their claspers came off, they’d die.”
A short pause. “What are claspers?”
“Oh, that’s not the point, they’re like tiny little extra arms that smell things. The point is, how many aliens had to lose their claspers and die without having any other…What’s the word I want? Variables?”
Kate was quiet for a while. The picture tried to come back a few times, showing Sarah glimpses of her sister through a haze of multi-colored distortion. “These guys are professionals, Sarah. It’s their job to make connections that people like us miss.”
“Yeah, but how did so many aliens lose their claspers in the first place, that’s what I really want to—”
“Did your house come with a phone?”
“Huh? Um, yeah.” She twisted to look up at it, clinging to the wall like a shiny, black beetle. “But it’s patched into the IBI switchboard. I can’t figure out how to get a line outside the village. I could look it up in the manual, but—” She laughed. “—I’m kind of manualed-out. I had to set everything, you have no idea. All the faucets are TruTouch. Who the heck even knows off-hand how many degrees they like their shower? Or their drinking water? Plus, I got my Fahrenheit and my Celsius screwed up and practically steamed-cooked my face off the first time I…Why?” She checked the paz’s signal, but it looked good. “Can’t you hear me okay?”
“I hear you. I was just curious. So this is your own paz?”
“Yeah,” said Sarah, still trying to see where this was going. “But they scanned it in through the company server when I got here. You know. So I can’t take pictures or blog about company policy or stuff. They said it wouldn’t affect my performance. I mean, I can barely see you, but—”
“That’s normal for the fossil you’re using,” Kate agreed. In a new, hearty voice, she added, “TruTouch faucets, those are awesome!”
“They gave me all sorts of things, it’s hilarious. There’s a plasmapanel TV in the living room, and all the appliances, even a coffee machine.”
“Another TruTouch?”
“No, it’s one of the Konaluv models and it’s crazy, I don’t know what half of those settings even mean. I tried to make a simple cup of coffee when I got home. I think I programmed it to spit out sixteen double-caff cappuccinos at midnight on the first day of 2045. Happy New Year.”
Kate laughed...
- Sales Rank: #232673 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-28
- Released on: 2013-02-28
- Format: Kindle eBook
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Beautifully-crafted apartheid story
By Pam Godwin
To compare this to the cockroach-from-space District 9 movie doesn't begin to do it justice. But that's a great movie, so it's a start.
This romantic sci-fier is a beautifully-crafted apartheid story, depicting the segregation of aliens and humans on Earth. There are some political and didactic undertones, but it doesn't condescend you. Nor does it choose sides. Instead, it leaves you profoundly moved, shocked, out of breath, and whip-lashed in a collision of human pride and shame.
Few books can rival this story's narrative spirit, sexual audacity (human/alien copulation), and depravity of villains. RLS forcefully shoves you into the concentration camps with these oppressed other-worldly characters and rips your heart from your chest as you see them as men and women and children, and not as extraterrestrial creatures. You live alongside them, sharing their dreams, friendships, humor, fears, brutality, starvation, and death.
The sci-fi elements are very soft, doesn't bury you in the nuts and bolts of speculative science and world-building. In fact, this is the fastest pace RLS script I've read to date.
The romance is not an overarching focal point, but this love story is more powerful than the majority of high-maintenance, non-communicative, self-absorbed relationships crowding today's romance genre. In a drama that is full of grief and suspense, the smallest moments between this H/h--her fingertips beneath the plates of his outer shell, their shared breath, their simple declarations (I am you and you are me)--bring the atrocities of their hardships into painful focus. Their sexual mating may be considered perverse by mainstream standards, but the mechanics are insignificant in lieu of the poignant, soul-deep connection between them.
Look as hard as you can, you won't find any flaws in this story. Yes, it's harrowing and weird and speculative. But the MCs are the paragon of heroism, the ending is uplifting, and the plot elements are brilliant down to the smallest detail. When finished, you might struggle to pick up another book right away, knowing that absolutely nothing will compare.
If you haven't read anything by RLS, this book is an amazing discovery of this author's artistry. It will hold your interest through every hard-to-read page. I was actually pained when I reached the end. I found myself flipping forward, chanting, "No, no, no." Not because the ending wasn't satisfying. The contrary. I was so embedded in the story, I had no desire to emerge. No doubt this will be the best book I read this year, as it has certainly joined my beloved shelf of all-time favorites.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
A Violent, Gruesome & Uncommonly Beautiful Story
By Aimee
Rating: (♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥) Wow, R. Lee Smith certainly likes to write some brutally gruesome, violent stories. This is your only WARNING! I can't send you a boat or a helicopter (heh, sorry, inside joke for all The Last Hour of Gann fans), so pay attention to that first sentence. If you're faint of heart, and can't take dark subject matter, I would probably steer clear of an R. Lee Smith novel. But... if it's something you're curious about or sounds like it's right up your alley, I highly recommend reading one. I've only read two so far, but they both deliver heavily on the shocking brutality and violence theme. That being said... this was another winner for me! Fantastic writing! Great dialogue! Excellent world building! Exceptional characterization.
Cottonwood and The Last Hour of Gann have some similarities that I feel should be pointed out before I get into the story. In fact, if you're going to read this book I think it's crucial that you read the author's notes at the back (first!) before starting the novel. It will explain a lot of things that I think are important to know ahead of time. The idea for both stories came about at the same time. Both stories have colonists that, by sheer accident, get stranded on a planet. In The Last Hour of Gann, the humans are stranded on a planet inhabited with aliens that are Lizard people. In Cottonwood, it's the opposite. The aliens are colonists that get stranded on planet earth... and they're bugs. As the author states, "We-go-there became The Last Hour of Gann. They-come-here became Cottonwood." (Read the Author's Notes! Seriously!)
Unlike so many alien movies out there where the aliens are evil, come to take over our world and enslave the planet, R. Lee Smith has turned it around on us. In both books, the humans aren't the good guys. In The Last Hour of Gann, most of the humans display less than honorable behavior towards the alien hero as well as each other. In Cottonwood, the world is led into making "racist" and despicable choices by an organization that appears honest and charitable on the outside, but is dark and criminal at it's core. The really sad thing is... I can actually see this being more real than I'd like admit. Most of the world has no idea they are being deceived. But as you'll read, our heroine tries, even as futile as it seems, to make a difference.
Sarah, our heroine, is another unlikely character just as Amber was in The Last Hour of Gann. She's a sweet, innocent girl who sees the world through rose-colored glasses and has a stuttering problem that makes itself prevalent when she's nervous or scared. She likes to hum and sing, as it's something that has always helped her with her stuttering. The thing I love about Sarah is she isn't perfect, but she is incredibly brave. She never gives up. She perceivers through all the bad even when things seem impossible. She's a true angel at heart and her capacity to love unconditionally is boundless. She's the example I would hope the whole of our human race would follow.
Sanford, our hero, is an alien bug stuck in the immigration camp of Cottonwood with his son T'aki. He was a soldier on their stranded spaceship and as a father, works hard to make sure his son is safe and well cared for in an environment that is wholly disheartening. His son T'aki is around three (human years?) old, cute as a bug (sorry, again) and is going to steal your heart. Literally! You've been warned.
Sarah is the caseworker assigned to him and all the other aliens in section seventeen of Cottonwood. The friendship that develops between these two, facilitated and nurtured by the presence of his son T'aki, is remarkable. But it's not just the friendship between Sanford, T'aki and Sarah, but also that of Sarah and all the other aliens in her section. However, it's not an easy journey for her at all, as the aliens don't trust the humans (for good reason) and the humans are conditioned not to trust the aliens. What unfolds is a very rich and inspiring story of courage, compassion, trust and finally, hope. Like The Last Hour of Gann, though, it's also layered with lots of "Ugly." But all these things are an integral part of the story and it wouldn't be the same without them.
Last, you will see some similarities in Cottonwood, to District 9, which the Author addresses in the Author's Note at the back of the novel. This is another reason I stress that you read that section first before jumping into the story. One similarity is the fact that both aliens are bugs and probably the most reasonable match for a picture, if you are looking for an image to hold in your mind while reading. One of the differences though, is Cottonwood's aliens have legs that bend backwards (opposite of our human legs) like a grasshoppers.
If I were going to recommend a starter book into the world of R. Lee Smith's writing, I would start with Cottonwood first. It's shorter than The Last Hour of Gann and I consider it a primer for the epic journey that The Last Hour of Gann presents. But I would recommend reading both books back to back. I truly loved them! In either case, you should expect a major book hangover. It's unavoidable.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
SUCH A WOW!
By Cali Girl
Ok, This book was the bizarreness of R. Lee Smith taken to another level entirely. Of course there are similarities to movies that readers will see but this story is so much more than that! I cried, I laughed, I got scared, I had to leave it & come back to it, I was appalled @ the inhumanity (which when you think about it, is going on in this world every day!) READ THIS BOOK!
All you sci-fi lovers! This is an amazing work. You want to root for what is right & good. You want to have hope, to keep hope alive. I can't even tell you about the cast of characters. There are too many players but you will remember each one of them because they make up the whole of the story. YOU WILL REMEMBER THEM! This book will stay with me forever.
And isn't that what a great book does to you? Makes you think, ponder, affects your being. It did me. I am giving this to my son to read as all good parents growing up on a diet of great sci-fi should!!
Yeah for you R. LEE SMITH! YOU ROCK MY WORLD! And you're a very nice person too... ;)
PS: This book had erotica & is not for the faint of heart! But so worth it!
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