Full series review available here from 1st February 2021: https://inkandplasma.com/2021/02/01/the-forward-collection/

This was a poignant story, though it did hurt my feelings thoroughly at the end. I loved the way that this story took the usually heartbreaking idea of an Earth-destroying apocalypse and turned it into something powerful and beautiful, about exploration and the power of human survival. I loved the plant samples idea, that humans were taking samples and tokens of Earth flora and fauna into the future with them - a lot of sci-fi I've read involves humans abandoning Earth without a look back.