Booklog 14/2023: Tade Thompson: Far From the Light of Heaven

[jacey]

The colony ship, Ragtime docks in the Lagos system to bring a thousand sleeping colonists to settle a new planet, but something is wrong, some of the passengers have been brutally murdered and their bodies chopped to pieces. What’s more, when all the body parts are reassembled, not everyone is accounted for. Shell is nominally in charge of the ship, though the AI is supposed to do all the heavy lifting. Fin is an investigator sent from the planet with his humanoid robot AI, Salvo. Nothing is quite what it seems, especially with the AI, and this is basically a murder-mystery in space. I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but quickly forgot about it afterwards. I liked Tade’s Rosewater better.