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No doubt your mother taught you that first impressions matter. When two species meet after the disaster (to both) of their first encounter, it's as important factor.
Thank you to everyone. The score keeps moving up for Eden-and, more flattering yet, my sales on Amazon's Kindle of both this and my other books keep moving up as well. I'm thrilled that so many people are pleased with my writing.
Trying to keep the ecological description down to a dull roar while still establishing a wholly alien environment that at least doesn't utterly defy the science that we know. 'Tain't easy to build another planet out of one's imagination. From here on the parameters are set and there's little further mention to interfere with the developing story.
A little humanity among the diverse human crew of the Gardener begins to emerge. "About time," you may be thinking.
All right, I admit that I'm postulating a pretty simplistic planetary ecology here. There's no question that a more complex one is likely. But I'm constrained by the exigencies of fiction; To be more realistic about ecological diversity would require much more literary space, and would present me with a conundrum-how to describe it adequately while still leaving room for the story I'm trying to tell. I've settled for what I considered a necessary compromise. I hope those readers with greater biological knowledge will accept my "happy medium" without too many quibbles.
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