It’s this goopy organic growing changing mound of tubes and tendrils, that they only enter once a year for a ritual and then ignore the rest of the time. I liked the slowly unfolding mystery of what happened to the Pathfinder, although I would have liked more backstory on what happened on Earth to make them leave, and some more info on what the heck God’s city actually was. If this had been it, it could have been an interesting book. Ren has been ‘rescuing’ objects from the recycler and fudging the logs, justifying it by saying she’ll fix all these things ‘someday.’ Sung-Soo knowing her secret is a big deal. In a small colony where everything is recycled and every community member has their allotment of supplies, hoarding is a big deal. He finally bullies his way in, and she’s a hoarder! This was an interesting take I’d never seen tackled in a sci-fi book before. They welcome this mystery Sung-Soo in, and Ren is immediately uncomfortable with how interested he is in her and her home, which she doesn’t let people enter. He claims to be the son of one of the other shuttle inhabitants, thought to be dead these twenty years. In the current time, Ren and Mack, the leader of their settlement, find a young man at the borders of their community. Except a tragedy happened after they landed and discovered an organic growing city, so now Suh is gone, and a couple of shuttles didn’t make it through the landing (or Planetfall). Ren, our main character, helped Suh (her friend and roommate) build the ship that took them to the coordinates, where indeed there was a planet that could sustain human life.
(I thought they were fleeing from some kind of planet-ending doom, but then it seemed like not? They just got the traveling bug?) A scientist named Suh had a vision/dream of some coordinates she decided were from God, and thousands of people said “Oh, okay, cool! We’ll give up our entire lives and come along.” They called Suh the Pathfinder. Twenty years ago, a group of scientists and pilgrims left Earth for reasons I thought would be explained but weren’t.
This book was SO AGGRAVATING! The first half was interesting, and it tackled mental health in a way I hadn’t seen from a sci-fi book before, and then the ending was just MADDENING.
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