![]() Two humans, Tommy and Angela, were stranded here, and now, six generations later, have incestuously bred a large family plagued by genetic disorders, held together by a deteriorating law and oral culture, which remembers without understanding such terms as lecky-trickity and Rayed Yo. Both flora and fauna make their own tiny lights (but why wouldn’t they adapt to the perpetual dark by evolving different senses or capabilities?). In its place are huge trees pumping hot water up from subterranean volcanic rivers, which power the ecology. Galouye’s Dark Universe or Jack Vance’s The Blue World, Beckett’s ( The Peacock Cloak, 2013, etc.) newest is a story of survivors in an alien environment who have more or less forgotten their origins. ![]()
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