Her complex special interest in the ship’s androids often takes the place of socializing with humans, which introduces readers to the world of synthetic workers and the relationships between androids and humans. This leads to her social isolation even before anything mysterious begins to happen… but fortunately loner Park seems more comfortable this way. There are hints from the beginning that the others on this ship have complicated backstories, that there are secrets and factions on the ship, and that the mission is not exactly as described, but Park’s frankly dreadful at her psych job and doesn’t exactly encourage confidences or even social chats with the other crewmembers. Park doesn’t really connect with or understand other people, so she mostly keeps the paperwork for a more senior shrink. In this future world of android workers and space colonization, the hardest aspect to accept is that anyone in the galaxy hired Grace Park as a psychologist. We Have Always Been Here, by Lena Nguyen, is a thoughtful scifi mystery about a colonization ship on a planet where nothing is what it seems on the surface.
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