Fiasco

Paperback, 336 pages

English language

Published July 5, 2018 by Penguin Classics.

ISBN:
9780241334355

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2 stars (1 review)

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2 stars

There are parts of this I delighted in, but I think I have too many issues with this one.



The story starts us with the pilot Parvis who is making a delivery run to Titan and discovers that a few people have been lost on the moon, including his mentor Pirx (of the Pirx the Pilot stories). He takes a mech out to find them but ultimately must freeze himself in a cryo pod.



Jump to the future where Eurydice is heading to make first contact with a planet. On board they've taken aboard the missing people including two pilots who have been in cryo, both of whom have names starting with P, but they don't have any more information than that. They randomly choose one to bring out of cryo, using organs from the others, but also know that the one that the bring back will have amnesia.



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