Symbiosis - Episode One: Poiesis by Valentina Kay A BookSirens ARC

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From Amazon.com bestselling duo Daniele Bonfanti & Valentina Kay comes a new serial novel of wild space adventure!

Modifying bees, genetically and cybernetically, did not save Earth from Eco-Singularity. But the surviving few who made it to Ganymede rebooted civilization as the a covenant of humans and bee-colony superorganisms. Captain Petra, a bee colony, helms the starship Endurance—a self-sustaining ecosystem reminiscent of a Mediterranean village (plus photosynthetic hull, greenhouse main deck, and dark energy sails). With her lover, the alien flowering plant-like Wyk, and her daredevil crew, they travel via the ridiculously dangerous icebreaking process, which implies moving as thought through the mind of the Sentient Universe. In the pilot Episode – and standalone novella – “Poiesis” they encounter a derelict, monstrous ship. Petra, Wyk, and two human crewmates board guts of the ship which look like actual guts, cyber-zombies, a multi-species séance, gunfights with exotic weapons, and gory melee. Warm up your brain for Fractal the ultimate, inherently incomprehensible theory of everything. Centuries ago, the lunatic meta-musicians of Ganymede demonstrated that reality is created by our minds through collapsing cognitions in the Universe’s mind—Psi—into perceptions. This brought all the answers and ultra-cool tech. Too bad Fractal Harmonics brought the Epistemic Walls as well—the end-of-the-line for any further scientific development. One of such Walls is Resonance the impossibility to build a true, poietic artificial mind. Someone or something, aboard the ghost ship, won’t accept this inescapable law…Will the explorers manage to escape the crazed thing and fight their way back to the Endurance? Probably, because this is Episode One of a saga. But hey, you never know.



Symbiosis - Episode One: Poiesis Book Review

The story was more 3.5 star for me rather than 3 and Read as an ARC.

I received the Review Copy of this book and my thanks to the team of BookSirens, the publisher and the author for the copy.

All views expressed in this review are my own and based on my reading of this book. Some of the initial comments were made as I progressed in this book and I have not tried editing them as it expresses my contiguous thoughts as I proceeded with the story.


This is an extremely short story at less than 70 pages and the start of a new series. The story is hard science fiction and at first impression feels like a Resident Evil in space. This would be a very simple explanation for the story which is much more complex.

The story punches above its size and apart from its start which is extremely slow while setting context, the rest of the story moves at an extreme ace and ends with a bang with the reader wishing for more.

I loved the science described here including the hive usage which with bees in the picture makes for an interesting experience. The technology used by the protagonists is at par with most sci-fi stories but the brain at the center of the device and its implications makes for an interesting reading and is something I would like to explore more from the follow-up books by Valentia.

I loved the story and would recommend it as a good fast paced short story.



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