Far-Seer, Robert J. Sawyer

Far-Seer

Book One of the Quintaglio Ascension

Far-Seer is the first book in a trilogy that takes place on a world where dinosaurs rather than homo sapiens have evolved into the intelligent species. Book one follows the discoveries of a young astrologer who embarks on a pilgrimage to witness the Face of God. On this journey, he borrows a “far-seer” and instead discovers that his people live on a spherical moon that orbits a Jupiter-like planet, and that their proximity to the planet is endangering the world on which they live. He is essentially the Galileo of this fantasy world and similarly finds himself condemned and punished for these “beliefs”. The book concludes just as he manages to convince a critical mass of Quintaglios that his discoveries are, in fact, the truth.

The author has thoughtfully created a society of saurian carnivores who must be cautious about how they interact in order to avoid triggering instinctive territorial responses, and who use religious rituals to control population growth, territory expansion and hunting/eating practices.

Rating: Buy it.

 

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