Helix

He stood and stared. Something about the arrangement of the distant points of light, the unfamiliarity of the constellations, brought home to him the fact of their isolation. A pretty straightforward adventure story, with some elements of exploration. The helix of the title is the big concept here, b......more

This book is probably for a younger audience because of its simplistic and shallow story. But first off, this is barely a sci-fi book. This is mostly a book about oppressive religion. Not at all what I expected! Nor what I wanted. Although some of the ideas in this book could have been great, they are......more

Helix starts off with the story I want to read. Colonists going to a new place and establishing a colony. I don't know why I'm drawn to this story - maybe its a lasting impression from my Robinson Crusoe/Swiss Family Robinson days... And then, like so may before it, it turned left. And it wasn't qui......more

Helix by Eric Brown was a disappointing book, at least for me. I read it because I have read several of Eric Brown's other novels and enjoyed them greatly. This one never reached its potential as far as I was concerned. It dealt with a group of humans who are forced to flee a dying earth and seek a......more

I think what attracted me to this book was the concept of humans on their own trying to set up a colony on a new world against the odds. What I enjoyed about the book - I thought the concept of the helix was intriguing and imaginative - providing plenty of scope for a number of over novels. I though......more