Nia agrees to escort the child to Pelican, one of Fumiko Nakajima’s famed space stations. He is non-verbal, too-thin and certainly an offworlder. A slave to her nomadic life, Nia has “whittled away the years in the pocket, running as far as she could from home.” At Umbai-V, the final stop on her latest contract, Nia is introduced to a young boy who was found in the fields, simply “lying next to the rubble” of a ship crash. Nia Imani is a Captain, trafficking harvest shipments throughout “Pocket Space.” Her journeys allow her to bend time and surf through different worlds. She chooses to accept a top-secret appointment in Umbai “to design…a series of space stations that would rival the best of their competition.” Fumiko sets the stage for new human pathways, garnering power and wealth, but never happiness. As is common, Fumiko was edited before her birth, yet “unlike most babies, she was designed to be ugly.” After a workplace tantrum goes viral and a promising new relationship takes flight, Fumiko must decide between love or her career.
Earth has become “a less viable home…despite the solar-paneled fields, the gullies stuffed with banned diesel vehicles.” Fumiko Nakajima is an aerospace engineering genius.
In Jimenez’s world, environmental sustainability has failed. But can humans improve being, well, human? With such progress, life will certainly improve. The possibilities seem encouraging, endless. For readers, fiction set in the future can evoke optimistic views of our days to come. The Vanished Birds casts feasible predictions for the 22 nd century. Spanning countless years, this book is anchored by gorgeously drawn prose, faulted players and the idea that hope is our most valuable commodity. Simon Jimenez’s novel, The Vanished Birds, is a well-crafted, superior science fiction debut. The Vanished Birds is a Well-Crafted Science Fiction Debut
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