The Family Tree
by Sheri S. Tepper
fantasy, science fiction
copyright 1997
read in March 2018
rated 8/10: really quite good
I thought, this looks to be a typical police thriller. It is not... not at all.
The book soon diverges into fantasy -- or science fiction... there is plenty of both.
It is also a cry for population control, conservation of nature, various other hot topics. Yet it is still easy to read and very enjoyable.
Okay, the saving of the world is a bit simplistic. There are far too many really nice characters. Too many plans go completely to plan.
It is still easy to read, enjoyable and positive. The save-our-planet messages do not drown out the story. The characters are good.
And the twist near the middle of the book caught me entirely by surprise! Logical, reasonable, completely unexpected. Well done :-)
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Okay, I thought the author's name was familiar. I read another of her books, The Margarets, in 2011. My comment then can be applied to The Family Tree: "It's a good book but not great. It is a book to be enjoyed. The book raises difficult problems. It is not a treatise for solution of the world's very real problems."
Perhaps I could also say, the presented "solutions" are pure fiction. They are really just statements of wishful thinking. Which is fine. The book is, after all, "fiction".
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
... Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved
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"Avoid criticism: say, do and be nothing." … per Ginger Meggs
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