Freedom's Ransom

Hardcover | 5 April 2002

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The inhabitants of the penal planet Botany had fought a grim and dangerous war to free themselves from their Eosi overlords. Now the Eosi were gone, and both Botany and Earth were free again uafree, but in serious trouble as the theft of all their communications satellites by the Catteni (working for their Eosi masters) had left them isolated and in a desperate situation. Hoping that everything stolen from them would be returned, they found that Catteni greed had triumphed. The merchants of Barevi refused to give up the stolen goods unless a substantial ransom was paid. Earth was in a particularly bad way: disease, vandalism, starvation and the breakdown of their mechanical world had left it's people fighting for survival. They desperately needed the goods the Barevi were hoarding. And so Zainal, Kris, and a courageous team from Botany set off to try and outwit the thieving merchants. It was an expedition that led to a horrifying replay of an old nightmare for Kris uaand only Zainal could save her and the future of both Earth and Botany.

Industry Reviews

There are other writers in the science fiction and fantasy fields who have enjoyed careers as long as Anne McCaffrey's, but few have demonstrated such consistency of inventiveness and achievement. While never achieving the literary clout of Ursula le Guin, McCaffrey remains the favourite female genre author of many aficionados, and her Dragon sequence has maintained an impressive standard over many years. Her speciality is a seamless melding of SF and fantasy elements: the universes she creates are always plausible, always assiduously detailed, and this skill is fully evident in Freedom's Road, her most innovative novel in some time. Characterisation here is up to her usual standard, but the new levels of imagination in the plotting categorically show that McCaffrey is not content to rest on her laurels.

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