The Long Sleep
By Ellen Mellor
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It was meant to be a great day.
Several centuries into the future, the world has finally come together under a single government, the Executive Committee. They provide for the rest of humanity, most of whom live in huge arcologies - enormous tower block cities.
The New Argo, has been sent to colonise a distant planet – code-named Gamma Six. The day it got there should have been a great one for humanity.
Instead, upon reaching the planet, the New Argo blows up.
But why don’t the members of the Executive Committee want to investigate? And what really happened to the New Argo?
These are the questions that Lize Carr, youngest member of the Committee, wants answered.
When she employs private detective Kem Logan to investigate she unwittingly starts a chain of events that will mean danger for a great many people, including Kem and herself.
Ellen Mellor
Ellen Mellor is a trans woman who has published three books: two novels - The Long Sleep and Down Among the Yla and a collection of short stories entitled Stories From the Corner of the Room. Her third book, Ghostkin, is currently in some deep slush pile somewhere. For more details, including free excerpts and the like, take a look at her website - http://www.samarcand.co.ukEllen reads insatiably and will try almost anything although her main interests are in Science Fiction and fantasy. She also reads comic books and has a collection that is really far too large.Ellen lives in Newcastle upon Tyne and is married with one son, two cats and library that threatens to collapse in on itself and form a literary black hole.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a good science fiction story but is also a well-written mystery. A crime has been committed, but space travel takes years and the crime is 30 years old before anyone knows about it and the evidence is on a planet 30 years travel away. Try that one for a thorough investigation.I enjoyed this as I’ve enjoyed many of the old scifi classics. Add a touch of gender politics for originality and multiple layers along with some appropriately futuristic technology and especially innovative uses for AI. The bulk of the story involves the mystery so the space travel aspect is primarily a backdrop, but the story flows nicely and the characters are well-defined. The reader gets some interesting insights into the minds of specific characters and how they react to 'unusual' situations which gives the story real depth.I suspect everyone will have their own favourite character but for me it was Julia, a very clever AI. Mellor does a good job of making the unbelievable believable and working the advanced technology into the storyline. It's a good strong 4 stars plus for me.
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