The Last Gifts of the Universe by Rory August
The Last Gifts of the Universe is Rory August’s debut book.
It came out in April and has 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon. It is considered a
light sci-fi genre book which I don’t read a lot of but when this came up for
tour on Love Book Tours I wanted to give it a try. I was so glad I did. First
about the book:
Blurb:
A dying universe.
When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to
venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilizations, a sea
of lifeless gray planets and their ruins. What befell them is unknown. All Home
knows is that they are the last civilization left in the universe, and whatever
came for the others will come for them next.
A search for answers.
Scout is an Archivist tasked with scouring the dead worlds
of the cosmos for their last gifts: interesting technology, cultural
rituals—anything left behind that might be useful to the Home worlds and their
survival. During an excavation on a lifeless planet, Scout unearths something
unbelievable: a surviving message from an alien who witnessed the world-ending
entity thousands of years ago.
A past unraveled.
Blyreena was once a friend, a soul mate, and a respected
leader of her people, the Stelhari. At the end of her world, she was the last
one left. She survived to give one last message, one final hope to the future:
instructions on how to save the universe.
An adventure at the
end of a trillion lifetimes.
With the fate of everything at stake, Scout must overcome
the dangers of the Stelhari’s ruined civilization while following Blyreena’s
leads to collect its artifacts. If Scout can’t deliver these groundbreaking
discoveries back to the Archivists, Home might not only be the last
civilization to exist, but the last to finally fall.
Review:
I fell in love with this book on page one. I could tell the
author loves cats because on page one a character uses a gel to fully clean up
cat throw up and left a pleasant scent behind. They also had a collar to put on
the cat to translate the meows to words (although it was quickly abandoned!) As
a cat person, I immediately wanted both of these inventions!
This book is set in the far future, many years after 3550.
The two brothers are on missions to find messages from lost civilizations. To
do this, they must visit lost planets and the technology they have allows them
to visit and read in any language. This book is short at 188 pages but the
author packs a lot of action and a great story in those pages. I highly
recommend this book because of the great characters and story. If you are a cat
person, you will fall in love with Pumpkin!
Author Info:
Rory August is a speculative fiction writer, animal lover, nature walker, and all around nerd. When they aren’t writing stories about lonely voyages through space, you can find them playing video games, the guitar, or a myriad of TTRPGs. They live in woodsy New England with their cat and husband.
Author website:
www.roryaugust.com
Instagram: @mxroryaugust
Twitter: @rory_august
Author illustration by Camila del Aguilla.
Website: www.camiladelaguilla.com
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