When Ishmael meets Shepherd at the spaceport is a great scene, but it plays out predictably afterward. Jordi’s escape from his scavenging trip into the village with Vaarden and his dog on his trail, through the snowy wilderness. There are some great scenes here that are sandwiched by cliches, flooded by. Needed more fire and brimstone if this was going to leave the reader dangling off of a cliffhanger. Reads like converted Firefly fan fic, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but you’ve got to step on the gas to give it some extra bite, instead of counting on the drama to carry it forward.Ĭan feel the cliff’s edge racing toward us as I cross the 75% line. But when a cliche stops down your action or a great scene, it steps all over the narrative in a way that drags the enjoyment out of the story. I’m not saying that cliches don’t have their place. I get into the flow and feel and start to enjoy. Jordi and Shepherd are very well formed characters. A persecuted people, authorities wanting to seize his ship, there wasn’t much of a choice who he was going to side with. He’s walked into something beyond his ken. A tramp freighter and her captain fall from the sky to deliver contraband medical supplies on a border world. He and his followers were the ones the armed men came for. In the quiet of a dead of night winter forest, the frightened villagers await the preacher who told them their way of life was a lie. Few of the villagers escape into the snow and ice covered forest. A young boy sees the attack begin and wakes his family. He is dragged into a fight he does not believe in and a desperate struggle to protect his ship, his way of life and the lives of the persecuted few who seek only freedom.Men with guns attack a small village.
Shepherd, a freighter-tramp and smuggler, is commissioned to deliver illicit medical supplies to a hostile border planet near the Wall. He and a handful of survivors flee into the frozen, snow-covered forest to wait for the preacher who told them their way of life was based on lies.
A 14-year-old boy, Jordi, sees armed men approaching and manages to wake his family. In the cold of a winter's night, a small village is the subject of a brutal attack. Yet there are those who preach a new religion and who want to be free. Humanity's true history survives only in whispers of a secret archive. Freedom, religion and self-determination are anachronisms. Every citizen is implanted with a device to monitor their location, health and emotions.
The Magistratus controls interstellar travel, access to technology, even procreation. In return for its protection, citizens must concede their rights absolutely. Humanity's survivors are now dispersed among distant colonies, thousands of light years from the barren, frozen rock that was once their home.Īt a time when power means everything, the ultimate power, the imperium, rests with the Consulate Magistratus. Centuries have passed since life ended on the blue planet.
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