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Book Review of In the Company of Others

In the Company of Others
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This novel is set in the far future when earth's millions are desperate for a new start off the overcrowded homeworld. Terraforming has provided the new worlds needed - then disaster strikes. An alien life form, the quill, somehow takes over the new worlds and makes them uninhabitable and earth is ruthless in quarantining earth from it's influence by preventing immigrants from returning home.

A generation later, the descendants of those who tried to immigrate are still stranded on obselete and decaying space stations. Aaron Pardell is one of those people, and unknown even to himself he is the only person to have gone to one of the infected worlds and lived afterwards.