Review: These Alien Skies
on Sheila Ash (India), 04/Dec/2021 06:07, 34 days ago
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These Alien SkiesbyC.T. RwiziMy rating:3 of 5 starsSo many layers packed into a short story! This is No. 4 in the Amazon seriesThese Alien Skies. Msizi and Tariro are copiloting a starship through the first ever wormhole when it explodes leaving them with no way home. The injured Msizi is aided back to health by the inhabitants of an alien planet, migrants themselves and alien original residents. The story has themes of love and loss, survival, history, colonisation and diaspora, alien tech and communication issues. I liked the way the writer used the colonisation of Africa by Europeans in the protagonist and migrants own histories, his appropriate use of real African languages, Swahili and Dholuo in the story, although with today's onscreen translation it was a bit strange to have their words written in English. Neat ending bring all three groups together.ashramblings
