Mike Resnick was an American science fiction author, prolific and highly awarded; reviewers note his engagement with colonialism and post-colonial themes. He won the Hugo Award five times.

Resnick is frequently praised for exploring colonialism and contact narratives. Reviewers cite that he won the Hugo Award five times out of thirty-seven nominations and that the Chronicle of a Distant World books form a thematic trilogy.

Three DeBaser reviews praise Mike Resnick's Chronicle of a Distant World trilogy for its sociopolitical depth and readable storytelling. The reviews highlight colonialism, cultural disruption, and post-colonial tragedy. Resnick is noted as a highly awarded, prolific SF author.

For:Readers of science fiction interested in colonialism, contact narratives, and sociopolitical allegory.

 Novels like this are rich in arguments that constitute true geopolitical and social analyses that are timeless and placeless.

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 Clearly another extraordinary achievement by Mike Resnick, the story told here, more than the others in the preceding two chapters, appears so "concrete," even dense, due to its short time frame and because it is so bloody, that it makes us forget we are reading a work of science fiction.

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