The story starts after a comet narrowly misses impact with the Earth. Instead the "tail" of the comet passed through, which turned out to be worse. Slowly people start to get sick and slowly lose touch with reality. The sickness is not responding to any medications that are thrown its way. Eventually it is determined that only adults can contract the disease and at the rate that it is spreading scientists won't be able to cure it before it wipes out Earth's population. That's a lot of back story for such a short book! But it is given partially as flashbacks from the main characters' points of view.
So the idea is that they build a HUGE space ship to send a select group of "children," nobody over age 16, into space on a mission to locate a new planet. This is humanity's last hope. It is one of the most classic space adventures that I have seen in recent years.
The main characters are Triana, the head of the council, and the rest of her council members Bon, Gap, Lita, and Channy. The events of the story are related through their perspectives along with Roc, the main computer aboard ship, and Dr. Zimmer, the man who came up with the plan. One reason I was so indifferent to this story was my lack of connection with any of the characters. I just couldn't get excited about anything that was going on.
This is just the first adventure in a series as the ship travels to its intended destination. So the book was very open ended. I think I would be interested to know how it ends up once they land on their new planet, but the flight to get there holds very little interest for me. Maybe I'll check into the last book in the series, but I might have to skip everything in the middle! I really thought this would be better...more exciting...more anything. Meh. That just about sums it up.
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