Publisher description
Two narrators tell the story of the simmering tensions between their two
communities as they travel out to a new planet, colonise it, then destroy
themselves when the tensions turn into outright war. Adam Roberts is a new
writer completely in command of the SF genre. This is a novel that is at once
entertaining and philosophical. The attitudes and prejudices of its characters
are subtlety drawn and ring completely true despite the alien circumstances
they find themselves in. The grasp of science and its impact on people is
instinctive. But above all it is the epic and colourful world building that
marks SALT out - the planet Salt rivals Dune in its desolation and is a
suitably biblical setting for a novel that is powered by the corrupting
influence of imperfectly remembered religions on distant societies. From the
early scenes set on a colony ship towed by a massive ice meteorite, to the
description of a planet covered in sodium chloride, to the chilling narrative
of a world sliding into its first war this is a novel from a writer who shouts
star quality. Two narrators tell the story of the simmering tensions between their two
communities as they travel out to the newly discovered planet Salt, colonise
it, and then destroy themselves when the tensions turn into outright war.
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