"The Best of All Possible Worlds" (Del Rey), by Karen Lord

Science fiction gets a Caribbean perspective in Barbados-based Karen Lord's "The Best of All Possible Worlds."

The ambitious novel follows the plight of the male survivors of a superior human civilization, reduced to lonely refugees by the annihilation of their home planet. They settle on a galactic hinterland that's home to their very distant relatives, along with pioneers and misfits making the best of homesteads, uncertainty and dismissal by supposedly superior societies.