Covenant

Rating:
Summary: interesting analogy
Review: Humans started hearing a signal from Pluto, around World War 2, andÊ
built a sophisticated spaceship, Ambassador, to detect the origin of the
signal.ÊAmbassador was built as a kind of tiny planet, able to travel
forÊmany years.

It was February 29, 2012, when at last Ambassador, in which there were
fourteen crew members, left Mother Earth. It took them seventeen years
to reach Pluto, where, unfortunately, something went wrong. They had to
crash-land on the planet, preventing Ambassador from taking off again.
Actually, they did succeed in landing (they succeeded because most of
the crew survived), but not in the manner they had intended to. With so
much difficulty, they decided to stay on Pluto, waiting for a rescue
ship from Earth. Even if they had managed to take off from Pluto, it
wouldn't have reached Earth.

With the author's poetic story telling, the plot is so thrilling that I
couldn't put the book down.
Then half-way through the book, we encounter the community deep down
under Pluto's surface, which looks systematically organized but very
inhumane. All of a sudden, the story becomes more exciting and
compelling. At the same time, it brings about a bizarre atmosphere.
Andrews' writing style also changed accordingly.
I'm amazed at the author's imagination and powerful descriptive ability.

Furthermore, I'm interested in his analogy of the earth and heaven. Is
he loathing the real situation of the earth, where we have never
stopped fighting? Is he trying to suggest that we are like the
citizens, who are living in the maze under Pluto's surface?

Perhaps he is suggesting, that we should be happy on this beautiful
planet, Earth, where we have a solar blessing, unlike Pluto. What does
the author have to say in Book 2? I can't wait.