1/03/2022
Name : Tamara Waters
Location : Qld, Australia
Title : The Spaceman - A Great Read
Review : Caught within a pandemic, I have found time available to pick up author Terry Deague's latest novel and to become drawn in by this absorbing story of a different pandemic. Reading The Spaceman, one becomes intrigued by the people and the politics of a new dilemma, i.e. a Space with the propensity to replicate and spread like a virus. Once entering the novel, one wants to enter The Space so as not to be disturbed while turning the pages of this interesting story. Although, of course, any living creature entering The Space cannot return alive. I enjoyed The Spaceman. It was a book that captivated me and, by the last pages, I was sad to say goodbye to an interesting author.

27/12/2021
Name : Janet Ward
Location : QLD Australia
Title : A Thoiught Provoking Read
Review : I have read one of the most interesting books I have read for years. The title, ‘The Spaceman’, makes one think of science fiction. However, this is a book about the complexities of real human relationships in very unusual circumstances. Because of the significance of the ‘The Space’, the book becomes a deep and meaningful examination of human isolation and the impact of this upon the characters. The isolation becomes the justification for the development of a complicated and ever expanding series of bureaucracies supporting, analyzing and constancy enlarging , as public services inevitably do and naturally run by men. I am absolutely fascinated by the characters, their development and changes and the machinations of the bureaucrats who benefit from the unique situation in which they find themselves – naturally always becoming bigger entities and constantly competing for first place in the pecking order. The Spaceman is fascinating because of the expanding ‘support and observation’ groups studying and analyzing their one individual subject, and naturally observing the other groups at the same time. The Spaceman makes us wonder at the produced implications of what the various groups observe as they attempt to firstly understand The Space and then solve the problem of its potential spread.