Salt. Adam Roberts.

The planet Salt is being colonised by perhaps eleven shiploads of
Christian pilgrims from different areas of Earth spending much of over
thirty seven years in suspended animation. One of these shiploads lied
on their application form.
It is split into six parts.

Part 1. The Voyage.
Brilliant. Every chapter in the first five parts alternates between the thoughts of an individual in the non-religious, anarchic group and the
eventual dominant ship's leader, who is militaristic, religious and just
as hypocritical as Maurice Gee's George Plumb. The populous of the
different ships will settle in different areas.
Part 2. The Fox and the Lion.
Again, just brilliant. These characters are straight from Eric Frank
Russell's And Then There Were None though more extreme, serious and more plausible. Neither party has a clue as to how to communicate or
understand the other and the interactions are fascinating.
Part 3. The Raid.
To right imagined wrongs based on misunderstanding, children are
kidnapped with deaths amongst the anarchists.
Part 4. Wandering.
This was mainly about how the anarchist's misunderstanding of the
hierarchic ownership culture ended in a crime as well. (The sexual
morals of the anarchists were believed by the Christians to be so loose
amongst the women that rape was a common acceptable practice.)
Part 5. Warmaking.
Boring, boring, boring. Mainly details of the war with the Fox becoming
similar to the Lion recognising the need for organisation, authority and hierarchy. This was about a quarter of the book, too much.
Oart 6. The Gift,
A new narrator, the former ambassador to the anarchists, takes over and
I am still not sure what was going on. A disappointing conclusion but I
had far more pleasure from the book than annoyance.

The planet Salt was more inhospitable than Dune and the world building
with the problems caused by this was fascinating. Four stars.

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