Justine's Reviews > This World Is Not Yours

The reviews are mixed, but I liked this one. It’s a great mix of horror elements. Are the people the frightening part with all their weird baggage and uncontrolled desires, or is it the indigenous goo that takes care of the planet in an (to human thinking) coldly indiscriminate way?

One of my personal irritations in fiction is people being dumb (ie “being people” I guess as it’s never a surprise when it happens) in space, or in this case, while making a go at colonizing a new world. If your environment is new or potentially dangerous, or both, don’t gum it up with petty emotional plots and wrangling. I’m not a fan of that apparently inevitable behaviour in real life either, to be honest.

If something finally says, “yeah no I don’t think this behaviour is going to work here and you’re done,” is that actually a bad thing? That’s the main question here.