{"id":7839,"date":"2021-12-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/?p=7839"},"modified":"2023-07-11T05:53:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T11:53:37","slug":"review-aestus-book-1-the-city-by-s-z-attwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/31\/review-aestus-book-1-the-city-by-s-z-attwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Aestus: Book 1: The City by S. Z. Attwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Review%3A%20Aestus%3A%20Book%201%3A%20The%20City%20by%20S.%20Z.%20Attwell\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Description (from <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3O99jgm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>An underground city, built centuries ago to ride out the devastating heat. A society under attack. And a young solar engineer whose skills may be the key to saving her city\u2026if she doesn\u2019t get herself killed first.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Jossey was ten, the creatures of the aboveground took her brother and left her for dead, with horrible scars. Now, years later, she\u2019s a successful solar engineer, working to keep her underground city\u2019s power running, but she\u2019s never really recovered. After she saves dozens of people during a second attack, she is offered a top-secret assignment as a field Engineer with Patrol, but fear prevents her from taking it\u2026until Patrol finds bones near where her brother disappeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She signs on and finds herself catapulted into a world that is far more dangerous, and requires far more of her, than she ever imagined. The creatures and the burning heat aboveground are not the only threats facing the City, and what she learns during her assignment could cost her her life: one of the greatest threats to the City may in fact lie within. With thousands of lives at stake, can she act in time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Aestus<\/em>&nbsp;is an adult dystopian science-fiction series set centuries after climate change has ravaged much of Earth. An epic story of vengeance, power, shifting loyalties, and survival that looks at just how far people will go to protect what they love, brought to you by science writer S.Z. Attwell,&nbsp;<em>Aestus<\/em>&nbsp;paints a picture of a world in which far too little has changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5-stars.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5-stars.png\" alt=\"5 stars\" class=\"wp-image-7354\" width=\"256\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5-stars.png 512w, https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/5-stars-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>My Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cli-Fi, or climate fiction, is not new to the world of literature. Jules Verne&#8217;s 1889 novel <em>The Purchase of the North Pole<\/em> is the earliest example I know of. However, cli-fi has seen an uptick in offerings over the past decade. Typically, cli-fi sticks to near future timelines with a distinct dystopian feel. Some novels, however, take us centuries into the future and employ unique engineering or adaptation methods to allow the characters to exist in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">S. Z. Attwell&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3O99jgm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aestus: Book 1: The City<\/a><\/em> is one of those books. Set long after a climate disaster that has left the surface of our planet incredibly difficult to inhabit, the story focuses on a solar engineer turned Patrol named Jossey Sokol and her discovery of the true threats to the society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Primarily told from Jossey&#8217;s point of view, the story successfully weaves political intrigue, mystery, science fact, science fiction, classism, betrayal, action and even romance together in order to bring us into the City and beyond. This is a drama, a cli-fi that sometimes feels as operatic as <em>Dune <\/em>or <em>Foundation<\/em>. And while those two novels are set in a place far removed from Earth, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3O99jgm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Aestus: Book 1: The City<\/em><\/a> is set here, and that makes it all the more possible\u2026and very similar to the world of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To pull off so many elements of fiction in one book takes a lot of pages (700 or so), but the writing is smooth, without too much superfluous narration. Attwell does an outstanding job. It is easy to digest and engaging as I thought about how the present is exposed in this novel&#8217;s future. While it does end on a cliffhanger, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3O99jgm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Aestus: Book 1: The City<\/em><\/a> does not leave us wondering about much. All in all, S. Z. Attwell&#8217;s novel is a fitting entry into the cli-fi library, and I look forward to reading Book 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Available at Amazon:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3O99jgm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Aestus-Book-S-Z-Attwell-ebook\/dp\/B08FD6TVLJ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bxwretlind.com\/blog\/reviews\/\">Read More Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;text-align: center;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Email\",\"Print\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"bxwretlind\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Review%3A%20Aestus%3A%20Book%201%3A%20The%20City%20by%20S.%20Z.%20Attwell\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description (from Amazon.com) An underground city, built centuries ago to ride out the devastating heat. 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