vile_reads rated North Woods: 3 stars

North Woods by Daniel Mason
When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods …
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When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods …
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Really interesting regarding self-awareness, identity and cognition as well as evolution. Especially so towards the end. Also some real surprises and tensions. Some of the ideas were obscured by unnecessarily jargon-y language or long-winded descriptions of spaceship engineering that did not help me imagine the things described. Perhaps that is part of the idea when you let the ship "jargonaut" be the narrator.