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The Necessity of Stars is truly a many-splendored book. Tobler deftly weaves together several story threads into a haunting, rich, and exquisitely crafted science fiction novella that I could not put down while reading, and that still lingers in my mind weeks later. For one thing, this is a complex, subtly shaded alien invasion story that is not focused on extermination and war, but rather on survival and subterfuge. The Necessity of Stars is also delicately drawn love story, about the deep and
The Necessity of Stars is absolutely perfect from the first sentence to the last, filled with lush prose that takes your breath away. Breonne Hemerli is a UN diplomat, living on an estate in France, surrounded by lush gardens full or irises, one of the few properties seemingly untouched by the climate change induced floods plaguing the rest of the world. Her best friend and occasional lover, Delphine, lives next door. While she lives her life in an ideal setting, Breonne is beginning to suffer f...
really beautiful written, and a devastating glimpse of a future where we allow climate change to run rampant. has a lot to say about age and memory, but i'm still kind of chewing on that. really gorgeous description of the aliens.
You look like you’ve fallen through a nebula, I whispered…Bréone lives in Normandy on the Irislands, a pocket of garden untouched by advanced climate change. She is losing her memory with age and takes comfort from the green space and her neighbor and companion, Delphine. I could have sunk deep into that alone, but one day Bréone encounters a shadow that she can’t explain. That shadow is starry and strange, and like much promised by the stars, a hope.A good amount of the story is internal. A nar...
There is a statement at the beginning of chapter three of this lovely novella that encapsulates how one can look at memory: Memory is a form of fiction—a story that keeps the days threaded together in proper order. Main character Bréone Hemmerli is losing her memories. She sits in her enclosed garden, and enjoys the quiet, safety and beauty with her neighbour Delphine, aware that much of the world is in the grip of big fires or floods. She is a UN diplomat, and her boss wants her to travel to...
I was on a fence about reading this novella, but then I noticed I actually read the author before and enjoyed it. That plus my overall love for novellas as a format was enough to end the fence sitting, though having read it, not sure it was quite the right thing for me. It stands to mention first and foremost that Tobler has a very specific narrative style, it’s very dreamy, very poetic. Normally I don’t care form that sort of thing, but sometimes it gets done just right. In Grand Tour Tobler d
(ARC received in exchange for honest review at www.netgalley.com) E. Catherine Tobler cut her teeth in Sci-Fi and Fantasy in the realm of short stories published by the likes of Apex and Lightspeed. However, ‘The Necessity of Stars’ marks a departure from that trend, instead presented as a novella following elderly diplomat Bréone Hemmerli, as she strives for peace in a fractured world. Whilst she tends her gardens, her haven on a planet beaten down by climate change, her memory fails her, an
Character-driven story following an old diplomat who might be seeing aliens in her garden when the world is falling apart.Beautifully-written with a dream-like quality to it and it's alwys great to follow an older female character. The ending left me with a LOT of questions though, I would have liked a few more answers at the end!
