There are other earthlings on board, including her parents, but they’ve been frozen for decades - packed on the ship that’s home to 2,763 passengers and bound for a supposedly more hospitable planet, at which point they’re supposed to be thawed.
In this case, the narrators are Elder and his love interest, and former frozen Amy, who lived in Colorado before being packed in a glass coffin aboard Godspeed. Like the series starter, “A Million Suns” is narrated in a manner that is in vogue in populist young-adult lit, with alternating boy and girl narrators who tell the story from their own points of view. But before Orion was bathed in cryogenic fluid and put in a deep freeze along with the other “frozens,” he recorded a series of video messages and hid them for Amy - who was born on Earth and, as Orion believes, can figure out the best solution to the ship’s problems, both mechanical and otherwise. The former leader was killed off in the series opener, and his successor, Orion, was put on ice. And Godspeed’s leadership is in question now that its new ruler, 16-year-old Elder, has taken its inhabitants off the drug that had supplicated them into allegiance for more than two centuries.Įlder is a clone who was bred to lead, but he’s new to the job. The Feeders, or farmers, aren’t able to produce enough food. Is it moving toward its destination or merely floating motionless in some unknown galaxy? No one understands Godspeed’s exact location in relation to the planet it’s been traveling toward for 250 years, but one thing is certain: The ship is falling apart. In the “Across the Universe” trilogy, author Beth Revis takes that pioneering concept and sets it afloat in space with a cast of cloned and cryogenically frozen characters who, in the second installment of this bestselling sci-fi series, become increasingly mutinous.Īs “A Million Suns” opens, it’s unclear if the ship, known as Godspeed, will live up to its well-intentioned name. More than 80 years ago, Aldous Huxley imagined a genetically engineered society whose inhabitants were willfully drugged into submission.
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