 My work here on YouTube is supported by viewers. Please follow the links in the description below where you can make one-time donations or you can go to the 30-second sci-fi website and pledge a small monthly amount to become a sponsor. This book was a very fortuitous accidental find. I believe I got it in a giveaway special on KoboBooks.com as an ebook. It's always a thrill to find a really enjoyable book by an author you've never heard of before. The story is about a small group of scientists in the distant future. They're occupying a space station in orbit around an Earth-like planet and they are studying the intelligent life forms from a distance. And then there's an emergency. They have to abandon the station and the rest of the book is about how they survive in the wilderness on an alien planet. The writing is excellent right from the beginning and all the way through. The author does some excellent world building and he does it primarily through character building. I found myself very invested in the characters right from the first chapter. I do want to point out this one passage that I took a screencap of here. The author is taking a dig at that bad Sandra Bullock movie from a few years ago called Gravity. When he has this one character complaining about what she calls lazy science fiction. This was cute. I do have one problem with the book and it's a major problem. The intelligent aliens who were supposed to be so bizarre, they were much too human, much much too human. Near the end of the book there were some scenes that I didn't believe at all but I still enjoyed the book and I recommend it. Please remember to press that like button. It helps my videos get seen and then subscribe so you can come back next time. I do science fiction book TV and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.