gregorgross reviewed Adrift by Rob Boffard
Fast plot in a chamber theatre setting
4 stars
This plot is set on a tourist ship that wants to fly about ten persons around a space station. Bad things happen to the station itself while on that 30 minute cruise around it, and all of a sudden the tourists, their guide and their pilot find themselves as basically the only humans alive in this quadrant of space. The only other living beings are on the space ship that attacked the station before their eyes. And now they are hunted by those attackers.
The plot is fast-paced: the minute it becomes slack, something happens. We get to know all the different tourists on board, and their dark or not so dark personal secrets. And we see them grapple with that big riddle: why was the space station attacked ten years after the war, why did they survive that initial attack of the space station, and is there any chance …
This plot is set on a tourist ship that wants to fly about ten persons around a space station. Bad things happen to the station itself while on that 30 minute cruise around it, and all of a sudden the tourists, their guide and their pilot find themselves as basically the only humans alive in this quadrant of space. The only other living beings are on the space ship that attacked the station before their eyes. And now they are hunted by those attackers.
The plot is fast-paced: the minute it becomes slack, something happens. We get to know all the different tourists on board, and their dark or not so dark personal secrets. And we see them grapple with that big riddle: why was the space station attacked ten years after the war, why did they survive that initial attack of the space station, and is there any chance they can even make it back to Earth or any other planet?
I liked it alot. Will go and see if the author wrote anything else since then.
