To Each This World

By: Julie E. Czerneda

Narrated by: Megan Tusing, Justin Price, Sharnell Palmer

From an Aurora Award-winning author, a new sci-fi novel follows three intrepid humans caught up in a conflict that stretches across time and space.

Biologist Julie E. Czerneda's new standalone science fiction novel, To Each This World follows a desperate mission to reconnect with long lost sleeper ships, sent centuries earlier from Earth to settle distant worlds.

A trio of Humans must work with their mysterious alien allies to rescue any descendants they can find on those worlds. Something is out there, determined to claim the cosmos for itself, and only on Earth will Humans be safe.

Or will they?

The challenge isn’t just to communicate with your own kind after generations have passed. It’s to understand what isn’t your kind at all.

And how far will trust take you, when the truth depends on what you are?

©2022 Julie E. Czerneda (P)2022 Spotify Audiobooks

Interesting look at negotiations between worlds

I really enjoyed how this book focused on the tenseness of negotiation and diplomacy between different interstellar creatures. The intrigue and mystery was fine, though I have mixed feelings about the ending.

The performances were great on their own but it was a little jarring when the VA tried to voice each others characters, it just sounded like they didn’t know what the other character talked like.

Overall though, enjoyed!

Aliens and puzzles and diplomacy, oh my

If you like weird alien biology, weird/cool future tech, world building like woah, and weird people saving the world through the power of friendship and snooping, this book is for you.

Creative and engaging

The world is amazing, and the aliens bizarre and intriguing. I like how they use invented pronouns for the aliens and alt intels, instead of assigning them genders. Performance is a little stilted sometimes, and inconsistent between narrators, but very listenable

Narration was lacking

Performance notes: A couple of words and names were mispronounced, occasionally the emphasis was placed on the wrong words, and Killian’s voice in Henry’s chapters was wrong. I recommend getting the printed book from your local library; follow along as you listen. That helped me a lot. In the printed book it is easier to distinguish one speaker from another and to understand which words are spoken and which are only thought.

Best New SF in years

An original concept well told. Reminiscenr of Ian Banks. There are first contact situations and the difficulty of understanding words while missing context. The slow understandings of the characters are realistic. And there is no gratuitous violence.