Gaia and Luna: In the View of the Moon
by Mark Newton
“Over the epochs she had thought she had seen everything. But nothing, not even those early days when she had to watch over her sister negotiate the furious eons of her fiery youth, compared to what she was now observing.”
Bang! And the universe is born.
And in a thoroughly nondescript part of the cosmos, eight wanderers, including Gaia and her diminutive satellite sister Luna, are placed by the great creator.
Then one day, Gaia announces that something has happened to her, something that she has called ‘Life’, and the two wanderers begin to study and curate and nurture this strange new phenomenon.
What wonders they witness, and what strange new concepts they discover as the Life evolves and diversifies at a breakneck pace.
Latterly, they observe the rise of a curious species of ape, the first emanation of Life to attain sentience and self-awareness. And as they follow and chart the rise of this ape to domination of the entire world, they become increasingly concerned about the behaviour of this ‘wise’ species, what it is doing to Gaia, and what might happen to them all as a result.
4 out of 5 fairies
This was a unique book with an unusual premise – Earth and the Moon (Gaia and Luna) as sentient beings watching the evolution of life (and man) on earth with totally different views towards it. I really enjoyed the contrasting view points, and the way the two had two entirely different personalities. It’s clear that as humans evolve they aren’t the heroes of the story, doing more and more damage to Gaia the further they go along, and both Gaia and Luna’s reactions to it were telling. Newton’s own views definitely seem to bleed in at times in thinly veiled ways, but I would expect that in a work of this scope. Overall, an interesting and original story, that will likely be hit or miss for many readers just because of what it is.
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