Geek book of the week: How a writer colonized a**ther planet
 

Geek book of the week: How a writer colonized a**ther planet
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Like the great pulp sci-fi writers of yore, Allen Steele loves to colonize other planets. As a modern writer of so-called "hard" science fiction, he also k**ws the value of keeping it real.*

Until he published Arkwright this month — our third Geek Book of the Week — the Hugo award-winning Steele was probably best k**wn for his Coyote trilogy, which focused on the hardships and unexpected encounters of Earth's first interstellar colony.*

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Coyote was constructed as a ****** of stories. The tale that left the deepest impression on me had to do with one of the hibernating colonists being accidentally revived, halfway to the Coyote system.*The ship won't let him go back into suspended animation. He has to face the fact he will die on board, with only frozen sleepers for company.* Read more...


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