Exiled from Earth (Exiles Trilogy)

A rare one star review for a book I actually finished and enjoyed. Cringingly though, it's not a well written book. And really dated. The deep sexism and casual racism in the book is tough to read past. I was prepared to say "well things were like that in the 50s" but this book was published in 1971! No excuse for that.

But even overlooking the problematic writing the deeper issue is the story is just not very good. It's barely sci-fi, this first novel, mostly it's an action adventure of Our Hero committing various unlikely stunts of survival and sabotage. And there's nothing at all in this book about what becomes the interesting story in the rest of the trilogy, the colony ship. It's setup for all that but honestly entirely skippable.

(I'm reading these books because I have a strong memory of reading the third book when I was about 12, and loving it. Thought it'd be fun to revisit it but boy are my standards higher now.)