- "There's
- a
- problem
- with
- Iota
- Horologii.
- We
- lost
- contact
- three
- days
- ago."
- Russell
- Lutz's
- first
- novel,
- Iota
- Cycle,
- chronicles
- the
- creation
- and
- development
- of
- a
- human
- colony
- fifty-six
- light
- years
- from
- Earth.
- At
- the
- beginning
- of
- the
- Twenty-Third
- Century,
- the
- colonization
- ship
- Hermione,
- under
- the
- watchful
- care
- of
- two
- androids,
- brings
- one
- hundred
- thousand
- settlers
- to
- the
- planets
- and
- moons
- of
- the
- Iota
- Horologii
- system.
- The
- colony
- takes
- its
- initial,
- hesitant
- steps
- as
- amateur
- flier
- Eliot
- Burke
- pilots
- the
- first
- landing
- in
- this
- new
- system
- and
- claims
- the
- landing
- site
- for
- his
- family's
- new
- farm.
- Slowly,
- citizens
- like
- Burke
- turn
- the
- barren
- ground
- of
- their
- new
- home
- into
- the
- breadbasket
- of
- the
- system.
- Decades
- later
- we
- join
- a
- soldier
- and
- a
- scientist
- on
- safari
- through
- jungles
- stranger
- and
- more
- dangerous
- than
- any
- on
- Earth.
- In
- Iota's
- halls
- of
- power,
- we
- witness
- the
- political
- machinations
- of
- a
- government
- tearing
- itself
- apart.
- We
- meet
- a
- brilliant
- young
- scientist
- whose
- passionate
- vision
- of
- the
- future
- is
- clouded
- by
- love.
- Through
- it
- all,
- we
- follow
- the
- fates
- of
- the
- Burke
- family
- as
- they,
- like
- so
- many
- on
- their
- home
- planet,
- struggle
- to
- make
- their
- farm
- a
- success.
- Finally,
- we
- ride
- with
- a
- platoon
- of
- Rangers
- on
- a
- bold
- mission
- to
- find
- clues
- to
- the
- mystery:
- Why
- did
- Iota
- Horologii
- break
- contact
- with
- Earth?
- The
- answer
- leaves
- the
- Iota
- System
- itself
- changed
- forever.
- Mark
- Brand,
- author
- of
- Red
- Ivy
- Afternoon,
- calls
- it
- "reminiscent
- of
- the
- best
- parts
- of
- Dune,
- Jurassic
- Park,
- and
- a
- number
- of
- Ray
- Bradbury's
- works."
- Across
- two
- centuries
- and
- including
- stories
- both
- personal
- and
- epic,
- Iota
- Cycle
- shows
- the
- dangers
- and
- the
- promise
- of
- the future.
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