Shivering World

Name: Shivering World
Brand: Oasis Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Kathy Tyers
ISBN: 9781645553557

Author: Kathy Tyers

Narrator: Nicole Parnell

Unabridged: 18 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Published: 02/16/2021

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Visionary & Metaphysical, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Microbiologist Graysha Brady-Phillips accepts an offer to assist in terraforming the planet Goddard for two reasons: she needs the hazardous duty pay, and she hopes the planet's colonists can provide a cure for the genetic disorder that is slowly killing her.

But such genetic engineering has been banned for decades by the powerful Eugenics Board, and Graysha is that board's high commissioner's daughter. When the colonists discover this, she isn't surprised that they ostracize her, for the penalties for conducting their radical research could include death. Graysha continues her work and tries to befriend the colonists, but soon she is dodging attempts on her life.

Even as Graysha questions whether her hope is worth the peril, she realizes she has grown attached to her new world. But that world is threatened, and Graysha must decide what she is willing to sacrifice: her security and professional hopes, or her new faith and even newer love.

About The Author

Kathy Tyers has published ten novels in the Christian and general markets, including two authorized novels for the Star Wars expanded universe, as well as a biography and a travel book. If she isn't writing, she might be teaching a flute lesson, mentoring a hopeful author via the Christian Writers Guild, or battling quackgrass in her vegetable garden. Kathy lives in Montana and has one grown son.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Becky on August 15, 2018

The planet of Goddard is in just the beginning stages of terraforming. Current residents are the Gaea Consortium scientists working on getting the planet stable and the Lwuite colonists, a religious sect with all sorts of rumors about them. Graysha Brady-Phillips is the newest Gaea employee to arriv......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on September 11, 2009

I haven't read any SF in a while but this wasn't bad. The world was interesting, the struggles seemed genuine and the characterization was also good. This books fits in an unusual category. I would call it Religious Science Fiction or perhaps Christian Science Fiction? The religious beliefs of the k......more

Goodreads review by Kerry on November 18, 2018

I’ve read quite a few of Kathy’s books over the last decade or so, but “Shivering World” is my new favorite. It is solid and compelling hard science fiction from beginning to end. The characters are multilayered, the setting feels legitimate, and the plot moves along at a steady pace. Even though th......more

Goodreads review by Carl on February 18, 2012

To be honest, the five star rating is for the original version of the book-- the rewrite for the Christian market was still good, but as I've commented on her Firebird series, the prose is somehow changed with the rewrite. I had read the general market version first, which was on the preliminary lis......more

Goodreads review by Katelyn on June 17, 2018

Incredible hardcore science fiction tackling topics like genetics, terraforming, and outer-world politics. Tyers has a mastery over the concepts of world building and science that makes reading her work realistic and vibrant.......more

Quotes

"The characters are gripping, the plot arresting, the storytelling impeccable." — Romantic Times

"A woman scientist, Graysha Brady-Phillips, migrates to a cold space colony called Goddard, where colonists have managed to extend the average lifespan to 150. Like Earth itself, Graysha is dying, but the cure offered by Goddard scientists may be worse than the disease, at least in ethical terms." — Booklist

"Smooth pacing and fully-developed characters . . . Fun, scientific mystery in the tradition of Asimov." — R.J. Sullivan, The Reluctant Famulus