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Lovelock The Mayflower Trilogy Book 1 Orson Scott Card Kathryn H Kidd Books

I was prepared to not like this book. I had read another collaboration that Orson Scott Card had been involved with (but obviously not written), and found it terrible. This work...stunning, complex, excellent! The aspects that I enjoy most about Card's diverse books come from his considering complex human nature, intelligent dialogue, and highly-developed characters. This book had all of that, and also a fascinatingly original plot. I wish that the authors would complete this trilogy!


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Lovelock The Mayflower Trilogy Book 1 Orson Scott Card Kathryn H Kidd Books Reviews

A memorable story, and an unforgettable, non-human main character a Capuchin monkey!
Lovelock's remarkable intellectual capacities, his interesting view of humans' nature, and his personal dreams and doubts, forcing him to take dire decisions, all of these things offered me a great read.
A must!

Roland Plouchard
A startling concept. Glad I read it.
Would love to review this book, but it doesn't exist. Only the first installment was published. It was a great book. After buying what u thought was a trilogy, I was informed that if it's in brackets, it doesn't include the entire story. Who would know that, and I never got a refund even though I immediately returned the book. The seller was very rude.
Orson Scott Card!!
Robert Heinlein's "Jerry Was a Man" and David Brin's Uplift series have approached this problem before when does an 'enhanced' animal become human? And if he's human, does he have a soul? What moral imperatives apply to such a being? How should such a being be treated? With this book, we get a deep and different look into this as we follow Lovelock, a genetically enhanced and psychologically conditioned monkey as he performs his tasks as a 'witness', a being specifically engineered to record every waking moment and action of a person deemed so significant that their lives are worthy of such attention.
The object of Lovelock's attention is Carol Jeanne Cocciolone, premier gaiologist, who has decided to travel on the Ark to the nearest stars in search of a habitable planet. By his conditioning, Carol Jeanne is Lovelock's love, his obsession, his paragon of virtue, a person he will do anything to protect. Along with Carol Jeanne comes her husband and his parents and her own two children, though none of them truly have any of the skills that are needed by the Ark, as a perk to entice Carol Jeanne to come. Seeing these people through Lovelock's eyes is a quick eye opener the mother-in-law as a status hungry moocher and lay-about and the father-in-law and husband as wimps who meekly go along with just about anything the mother-in-law wants. Not the best group of people to try and integrate into a society that is supposed to be full of some of the best and brightest Earth has to offer - but as quickly becomes obvious, quite a few of the other travelers on the Ark are just as bad in their own ways.
It is partially this quite dysfunctional setup that begins to set Lovelock off on his own journey of self-discovery, finding that he is not just a mute 'witness', but has thoughts and desires of his own - desires that eventually allow him to defeat some of the conditioning imposed on him, to remove Carol Jeanne from the pedestal she was placed on by his conditioning, and to take prohibited action to try and implement some of those desires.
Lovelock continues to grow as person throughout this book, slowly wrapping the reader inside his problems. And his problems are those that all humans face, questions of morality should I keep silent or tell a white lie to avoid harming someone? Do my own desires outweigh the good of the community? Why must I obey those strictures imposed by my surrounding society? Can I commit murder to save myself? At the end, there is only one possible conclusion Lovelock is as human as you or I, and should be awarded both the rights and responsibilities of that condition.
Characters other than Lovelock are also well drawn, though some of them are almost caricatures, but each is definitely an individual worthy of some attention. Less well imagined is the Ark itself. I had quite a problem with a design that required that functioning ecologies be totally ripped upped and moved, right down to the dirt, whenever the ship changed from spin-induced gravity to an acceleration induced one - this is poor design, and there are other possible constructions that would obviate this need. The computer system of the ship as described is also less than what it could be - even given the state of the art when this book was written, I cannot imagine any system that would still leave back-door passages into the administrative privileges. Finally, the idea that the Ark would be planned with multiple communities of 'like-minded' individuals doesn't seem very plausible to me.
But all of these problems are comparatively minor. This is a very good study of an individual growing to be a man, in all senses of the word, and is worthy of reading by everyone, from libertarians to xenophobes.
--- Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)
Overall I loved this book. I have read it several times and have gotten something new each time. The story was a creative way to explore slavery, evolution, and relationships. I had a hard time putting it down. I would have preferred a different approach to the monkey sex portions.

This was the first in a planned trilogy but I doubt there will be a second book. The intro kind of sounded like Card and Kidd had a rough go at it even though the book didn't reflect that. I would have liked to see where the story went.

Also, I found the basis of the book at odds with their real life faith.
I really enjoyed this book on a whole - it really got me to believe in the world he created as if it were true. But why does Orson Scott Card almost always seem to have to add some potty humor? It's like the 11 year old boy in him takes over and writes some unnecessary stuff and throws in some offensive language for good measure. So unnecessary. I sometimes think he throws it in so people realize he's not a typical LDS writer or perhaps he just doesn't want Deseret Book to carry his books so that he has a bigger audience? Needless to say, very disappointing in that regard. Fortunately the offensive part is fairly small and compared to other books it's minor - I guess i just expect more from an LDS author.This
I was prepared to not like this book. I had read another collaboration that Orson Scott Card had been involved with (but obviously not written), and found it terrible. This work...stunning, complex, excellent! The aspects that I enjoy most about Card's diverse books come from his considering complex human nature, intelligent dialogue, and highly-developed characters. This book had all of that, and also a fascinatingly original plot. I wish that the authors would complete this trilogy!