Divya Manian reviewed The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Really enjoyed this take on the future with some love for bird enthusiasts
4 stars
People with wombs are selected to colonize a new planet (yuck) because people on earth are too busy destroying themselves & climate change has become too violent at scale. They travel with thousands of specimens to be used for artificial insemination.
I really liked this plot twist on how people get chosen. It's a murder mystery that is sorta melancholic that ends on a more hopeful note. I felt really sad reading about the climate change and how the last hummingbird was caged in a zoo that was then hit by a missile. It really gutted me because thats what is happening now in Lebanon & Palestine.
Otherwise, my only criticism is that this book is too kind to fascists.