There is an obvious theme to Dinniman’s writing, but it’s not a case of telling the same story with a new veneer. Here we have “the dangers of AI” and “the horrors that people can inflict on each other” (themes common in his other works) but told via the experiences of a group of farmers on a colony planet that was just targeted by Earth for unknown reasons. And the story is again about the *people*, not just the setting. Really satisfying read and extremely well done.