Tag: Enigman Cave
Let’s Take a Trip to the Universe of the Enigman Cave
The Enigman Cave is all about what happens when we find the first multicellular life off Earth. In the meantime, back home, the government is collapsing, and fascism is on the rise.
Are the aliens intelligent, or are they not? Are they on the cusp of developing sapience? Or… not?
But There’s More…
The story is also about a long-term space mission. How do people get along? What makes it tick? What happens when people divorce or just plain get on each other’s nerves?
And it’s also about female friendship, and is probably the best and most detailed study of female friendship I have ever written.
In fact, many of the top people on board are women. In this way, it flips the script on a lot of space opera.
On the Ground
For Marnie, Trixie, Jazminder, Ben, Tom, Lex, and all the others, the Enigmans are fascinating. They are truly the culmination of all the searching they have been doing — for years!
But at the same time, they are, understandably, rather alien. What are they thinking? Are they mainly driven by instinct or perhaps emotion? Or is a form of intelligence driving them and their behaviors?
When the crew initially does not see or hear the Enigmans communicating, it seems as if they are a lot closer to apes than humans. Some of their choices seem strange, and even dangerous.
Are they reckless? Uninformed? Do they have a death wish? Or are they simply doing the very best that they can, with the meager resources they have?
For Enigma, while rich in gold, doesn’t seem to be rich in much else.
But Back to It…
Can we meet aliens without destroying them?
And can we stand up to our new, tyrannical government, without compromising our values?
Or are we destined to become like Cortes and the Aztecs, and grind a nascent civilization into dust?
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