It feels more like a vignette than a story.

I’m left with questions including: How did they manage the evacuation? Did they take all the animals with them? I gather I’m supposed to appreciate that Samantha has made a human connection in the last days of the Earth, and that the two of them share the joy of finding a new plant, but this just didn’t strike me. There’s not really an action line, either, as it rambles from Samantha’s work to her memories of the past to her encounters with Hagen. There’s not much plot or world building in the story, and only Samantha seems well-defined as a character. As far as I can tell, it’s joy in the endless variety of plant life on earth, and how poor humans are at appreciating and recording it. But meanwhile, has she found a new species of orchid? Nils isn’t planning to evacuate, and eventually Samantha makes that same decision. A small group of scientists stays behind to catalog as many possible plant species before they are evacuated. Since the asteroid is expected to cause cataclysmic damage, humans are evacuated from Earth to the nearest habitable planet. Nils Hagen has a greenhouse on the site where he cultivates orchids, and Samantha strikes up a relationship. In Ark, Roth explores an end of the world scenario in which a massive asteroid is on a collision course with Earth. Samantha works at the north seed bank in Svalbard. All that’s left are two Arks based at the northern and southern hemisphere seed banks, where crews of scientists are trying to catalog and preserve as many unique plant samples as possible before leaving. Scientists have known this for a long time, so Earth has been evacuated. The story runs 39 pages, and this review contains spoilers.Īn asteroid named Finis is on the way to strike the Earth. Roth is best known as the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy. OL16816112W Page_number_confidence 84.62 Pages 54 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200926071410 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 176 Scandate 20200922001828 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780062234919 Tts_version 4.This is a science fiction novelette published by Amazon Original Stories in September of 2019, part of the Forward Collection edited by Blake Crouch. Allegiant Boxid IA1942522 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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Ark by Veronica Roth