Coyote Series by Allen Steele

Forty-six light years from Earth, six months orbit a gas giant three times the mass of Jupiter. Each has been designated a name from the animal demigods of Native American mythology: Dog, Hawk, Eagle, Coyote, Snake and Goat.

Only the fourth moon, Coyote, is likely to sustain life. The crew setting out on Mankind’s greatest adventure know that the success of the mission will depend on how well they adapt to their own home. There is no going back.

But Coyote is also known as the trickster...

Written by Allen Steele, the Coyote series is an incredible tale of the colonization of a nearby world (or technically a moon). The novels are intelligent, thoughfull and incredibly well written. Allen Steele deserves to be seen with other great science fiction Authors like Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke.

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Coyote

by Allen Steele

I first found this novel during a book hunt back in 2006, at that time I hadn't heard of the author however I had just read Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars and as such was looking for another space opera "settlement" style novel. What I found with Coyote impressed me so much that I went straight out and got the next 2 novels in the series right after finishing the first.

While Robinson's classic is limited to our solar system, this is the story of Earth's very first interstell...

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reviewed on Friday 30 December 2011