These Alien Skies by C.T. RwiziMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
So many layers packed into a short story! These Alien Skies is Book 4 in the Amazon Series Black Stars.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.
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