SuitabookMeteor men
Jeff Parker
- Reading
- Read alongside discussion of how adolescence affects judgement: consider what changes when Alden’s connection to one traveller becomes connected to a threat facing everyone, without assuming the story supplies an easy answer.
- Themes
- Adolescence and responsibility: Alden is a teenager who has had to grow up quickly while confronting an event with consequences for humanity. The story clearly places adolescence beside extraordinary responsibility, but does not show whether Alden’s choices are praised, questioned or successful.
- Personal connection during invasion: Alden discovers a connection to one of the travellers after their arrival becomes an invasion of his planet. The premise sets an individual relationship against a collective survival crisis, without establishing which loyalties the story ultimately supports.
- Worth knowing
- The invasion and threat of humanity’s oblivion may make the story emotionally intense. The book’s treatment of the travellers, danger and consequences is not clear enough to judge how frightening or violent it becomes.