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List of Books:
Huperum by G. Pendleton | Twillinger's Voyage by Daniel Turner |
Throne Price by Alison Sinclair and
Lynda Williams
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Huperum
by George Pendleton
After centuries of intercontinental war, chaos,
and reconstruction, Earth wants to reassert
itself on the planet it built and colonized at
great cost nearly a millennium before Novus.
Abandoned during Earth's woes,
Novus has learned to exist on its own and now
rejects the mother planet's ancient claims. It
now must determine how far it will go to keep its
freedom; fully aware that it has developed a
society where war no longer exists. Huperum has
taken its place. Yet, it too extracts the
ultimate price few are willing to pay, necessary
if one aspires to be Huper, supreme ruler of
Novus.
One
who does is Keef Terrason, determined to restore
the lost honor and prominence of his people,
Pearthia, the new world's first colonists.
Standing in his way is Pendar Loriat, an Akasian,
bred and trained to rule, descendent of Novus'
first Huper, Pendar the Great.
Into
this setting arrives Earth's new Consul General,
Sean Lewis, sent to Novus to convince the present
Huper to meet Earth’s demands. Earth does not
want conflict, but is determined to take what is
not willingly given. It believes it has paid too
high a price not to.
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Twillinger's Voyage
by Daniel Turner
Twillinger's Voyage, is a Gulliver's Travels of
the 22nd Century. Satire is interlaced with the
space-opera plot, making for a fast and amusing
read. Subbed in its entirity through SFN over a
nine month period in '99-'00, a repeated comment
from "critters" was that the story is
extremely realistic. The technology lines up
with science as we know it, and the social angles
reflect humanity screwed a few degrees for alien
perspective.
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Throne Price
by Lynda Williams and Alison Sinclair
First published novel in a series collectively
called the OKAL REL UNIVERSE, about descendents
of Earth colonists for whom Earth is more myth
than memory.
Erien, aged seventeen, is a Gelack of unknown ancestry and a
mixed Reetion-Gelack upbringing. He arrives on Gelion homeworld
determined to do whatever he must to secure Rire's immunity
from Gelack invasion, but ill-equipped to make his way in his
heirarchal, violent culture.
Amel, aged thirty
four, has entirely too much ancestry and too much past. His
only wish is to keep the rivals for the Throne of Gelion - his
mother and the Ava he serves - from arriving at a bloody final
reckoning. He is handicapped by notoriety earned first in his
early life of prostitution and then, eighteen years ago, as
the captive of Rire. Erien's mission, and even more, the secrets
regarding his birth, are liable to undo everything that Amel
has worked and suffered for.
Surrounding them
are people with their own political, sexual and social agendas:
the Ava himself, determined at all costs not to repeat past
mistakes; Amel's mother, rival to the Throne, a woman with damaging
secrets of her own; the Ava's engimatic Champion, on whom everything
may depend; a young reformist Prince; a cloistered Princess
destined for a political marriage; the Ava's commoner intelligence
officer; Amel's two brothers, one who aspires to power and the
other who has darker passions.
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