Posted: Apr 12, 2015 7:41 pm
Very enjoyable read. Given your science background, this was obviously going to be written as a serious take on what it would be like to have a martial colony. I can't count the ways that premise would be screwed up by other writers.
But it's a totally human story. You use Selena's extreme circumstances to raise issues that are completely close to home and easy to identify with. She's a strong character, even if it might be that, on reflection, she's destructively insecure. (big question mark there --- I'm pretty crap at interpreting this stuff
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I have to admit that I identified a lot with Beate when she was happy to let Selena go off on a tangent from the counselling session and explain science.
But it's a totally human story. You use Selena's extreme circumstances to raise issues that are completely close to home and easy to identify with. She's a strong character, even if it might be that, on reflection, she's destructively insecure. (big question mark there --- I'm pretty crap at interpreting this stuff
)I have to admit that I identified a lot with Beate when she was happy to let Selena go off on a tangent from the counselling session and explain science.