All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.

Sara Creasy is a new writer to watch, and Song of Scarabaeus is a novel to read and enjoy. . . . The biological speculation rings with truth and possibility, the terraforming-gone-wrong creates an environment of delicious creepiness, and Creasy's imaginatively-constructed universe draws the reader in, to follow Edie and Finn's quest for freedom.