7/6/2023 0 Comments Sentient by Jeff Lemire![]() ![]() The details are never really explained, as they aren't that important to the story. Earth is on the brink of environmental collapse, and there are also separatist terrorists on the colony itself. The USS Montgomery is a colony ship carrying families, including a bunch of kids, to another planet. I enjoyed it, even if the science is soft at times (AIs that don't really act like believable AIs are one of my pet peeves.) With allowances made for the fact that it's told in graphic novel form, Sentient was pretty good. Sentient is like a little kiss from sci-fi's golden age, a story about a colony ship, kids in peril, an AI learning to be human, and completely extraneous space pirates. There aren't many new ones - YA SF is usually about dystopias and identity and shipping drama and whatever the young'uns are interested in nowadays. I will always have a soft spot for YA science fiction, especially "kids in space" stories that remind me of old Heinlein juveniles. But as they are pursued by dangerous forces through space, can VALARIE rise to the task and save these children? VALARIE must help the ship's children survive. ![]() When an attack kills the adults on a colony ship, the on-board A.I. From Eisner Award-winners Jeff Lemire (Black Hammer) and Gabriel Walta (The Vision). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |