Something terrible has apparently happened to Teri, or so we’re told by the shrink, but we only find out as he watches video after video in a drunken stupor. Ecospectors help terraform Mars and in doing so, they “roo” around the planet. Or so it seems.The story begins with the reflections of a cop/psychologist reviewing videos of interviews he did with a very young woman named Teri, an “ecospector” with her father. Some people wonder if that might not be a good thing, actually, because the new versions of Resuna seem peaceful and want to “help” people, make them happy, ease their stress. Mars has been settled by four waves of settlers from Earth, which is now a place to be avoided because it has been taken over by a monster meme (basically a giant computer virus) called One True and it has small versions of itself called Resuna it’s sending to Mars, trying to infect everyone there and take over that planet too. It has some frightening aspects to it and some scary things to consider.The setting is Mars, one of the Earth’s colonies. Interesting, intriguing, mysterious, fairly well told in a now somewhat common, but perhaps then unique way. The Sky So Big and Black is a sci fi novel by John Barnes that is good, not great.
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