Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

By: Temi Oh

Narrated by: Nneka Okoye

Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet meets The 100 in this unforgettable debut by a brilliant new voice.

A century ago, scientists theorised that a habitable planet existed in a nearby solar system. Today, 10 astronauts will leave a dying Earth to find it. Four are decorated veterans of the 20th century’s space race. And six are teenagers, graduates of the exclusive Dalton Academy, who’ve been in training for this mission for most of their lives.

It will take the team 23 years to reach Terra-Two. Twenty-three years spent in close quarters. Twenty-three years with no-one to rely on but each other. Twenty-three years with no rescue possible, should something go wrong. And something always goes wrong.

©2019 Temi Oh (P)2019 Simon & Schuster UK

I was hooked and was sad when the book was over

Absolutely enjoyed the book. Would love to have a part 2.

While the book is superficially a sci-fi book about travel to another planet, it's really a study of psychology.

This is literary (not flashy) speculative fiction

This is a psychological science fiction novel and not a space opera or tech-driven novel. The technology is only a smidge into the future. Instead, this is about ethics, making human decisions, and choosing to explore.

I read (actually listened to) the book because Audible suggested it had a bit in common with Becky Chambers' Wayfarers series. I think that is accurate (although, even Chambers' series has more high-tech flash). I also thought this book was similar to Meg Howrey's The Wanderers (although, Howrey's book also has more tech than Oh's).

Bottom line -- the book is beautiful. This is true literary speculative fiction But, perhaps not for you if you like flash in your sci-fi.

The characters are racially and class-wise diverse (I think, they are British, so this American has a difficult time "reading" some markers). Sadly, the crew seems overly straight/cisgendered. There is a bit of neurodiversity among the characters.

The reader was good w/ a light British accent that was understandable to my American ears. She portrayed a lot of emotion well.

Space teens

So it was a fine book. Like I didn’t hate it, and sometimes exciting things happened, but most of the young main characters are hard to like. They all have annoying things about them. There was just a lot of drama and not a lot of interesting things for most of the book. It did start slow, but the end was alright. If you like drama and space, you might like this book; if not, the book is okay. Also the narrator js British if that is important.

awkward pacing, poor characters, illogical choices

I don't demand realism from my sci fi, but I want the characters to make logical choices according to who they are, and I feel like that's lacking in this book.
The pacing is awkward, too slow to be truly engaging.

a pretty decent 1/3 if a book

fairly well told story that suffers a bit from inconsistent pacing....and then ends.
maybe this was a set up for sequels bit if the author thinks this suffices as a full novel they are wrong.

Slow Start but Picks Up Nicely

The premise -- teenagers being sent into space with a seasoned crew to shadow for a 23-year trip -- felt logical and reasonable to me. Liked how main characters were developed. Teenage angst made story believable as well. Appreciated the inclusion of the subject of spirituality, a topic much of sci-fi avoids.

Mixed feelings

There was a lot I didn't like about this book and yet I finished it in two days. What I liked: the ending, and that's not sarcasm, the ending redeemed the book for me. What I didn't like about the book: the pacing, the characters, annoying drama, the book was really not about traveling to another planet it was about the characters strengths and weaknesses. The narrator did not help. There was a lot of swallowing and lip smacking but that was probably more of a production issue. Anyway, I definitely sped up the narration, sometimes to 1.7 speed just to get through to the end. Even with all the negative when I put the book down, I couldn't wait to pick it back up to find out what happens. This is probable not a book I would recommend but surprisingly I might listen to it again sometime in the future. There a not many books that make me feel so conflicted.

it's okay

I like the premise of this story, and the idea of telling it through several voices in the group, but I got pretty bored along the way. Although I like the narrator's voice and clear articulation, she is constantly switching between soft speaking to exclamatory yelling with the dialogue, and this book is nearly all dialogue. Since I listen to audiobooks at bedtime or on headphones a lot, this drove me crazy. I couldn't hear one second, then hissing and screaming in my ear the next.

DNF, couldn’t get that into it

I didn’t finish. I got about six hours in finally decided that I couldn’t tell you what the story was about.


There’s nothing particularly wrong with it. The characters are well drawn. The world seems interesting enough. Though pointlessly so up to the point I reached. There was plenty of social discomfort. Possibly too much.

I just couldn’t see where it was going in any way that interested me. Everyone’s goals and how they were going to play against each other just wasn’t clear to me. And I was tired of waiting for it to become clear.

NOTHING like the wayfarers series

Don't believe the description. This book has none of the same themes and a different tone from Chambers' works and lacks any sort of LGBT rep. If you're coming for a book similar to hers, you're in the wrong place and you have been lied to.