So, while it's often fun to re-read and sort of re-live old childhood books, I can't help thinking this book might have been better as just a regular reprint of the original, with whatever flaws of that time of writing, rather than this remake which for me now more leaves the question of what was changed and why.

Of course it's meant more for youths or maybe even children, but it still feels too simplified, and maybe if the focus had been more on the story and relations and less on the technology, it would have held up better. It's too simplified, for example too many quick jumps from one planet to another in the search for a new home, low technical detail, and I can't find much of the mentioned new focus on environmental questions. I can't compare the quality with the original since so long ago, but once I quickly passed the new beginning, the main story also does not feel like it's on the same level as in the first book. The so-called 'reworked' beginning to 'bridge over the gap' between the first book and the dropped second book into the story of the third book (now relabeled as second book) feels short and inconsistent. Secondly, despite claims that it was released in november 2020 I wasn't able to actually get hold of it until january 2021, either way, it's been almost a year since the release of the first book in 2019 and I can't recall the first too well, it was fine but did not leave a high impact in memory, so this story must be assumed to be able to stand on its own, but it doesn't. But.įirst of all it was originally the third book in a series of five, and in this reprint it is now the second book of only four planned, so apparently one whole book seems to have been dropped. I can't actually say I remember the original from 1980 very well, so it may have had a bit of nostalgic shimmer over it. This book is disappointing in so many ways.

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