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Sergeant Kendra Pacelli is innocent, but that doesn't matter to the repressive government pursuing her. Mistakes might be made, but they are never acknowledged, especially when billions of embezzled dollars earned from illegal weapons sales are at stake. But where does one run when all Earth and the planets are under the aegis of one government?
- Sales Rank: #131360 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Baen
- Model: 940803
- Published on: 2004-01-01
- Released on: 2004-01-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 4.19" l, .69 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 688 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
Michael Z. Williamson served for five years in the United States Air Force and five years in the Army National Guard, and has spent eight years in the Air National Guard. He is a competitive shooter who also collects and builds firearms and enjoys recreational parachuting. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Gripping read after a slow buildup -- which pays off
By Scott Maxwell
Looking over the reviews at Amazon, I see many five-star reviews (completely justified) and lots of one-star reviews apparently motivated by hatred of the book’s libertarian bent. One review starts out, “I really wanted to like this book, but it quickly became a tired repetition of Libertarian fantasy…” — that review’s not marked as verified purchase, so I suspect it’s just anti-libertarian axe-grinding.
What’s amusing is that Williamson’s “libertarian paradise” of planet Freehold, a breakaway colony of an Earth ruled by a micromanaging UN, is far from a paradise — it’s just different, relying on individualist philosophy, much as in the US Blue Tribe urban areas are politically very different from rural Red Tribe areas. These differences are exaggerated in this future, but neither Earth under the UN or Freehold under its minimal government are portrayed as perfect. Those negative reviewers illustrate exactly the issue addressed in the book — the collectivist Earth government can’t tolerate even the peaceful co-existence of a civilizational cousin that shows them up by thriving and outdoing them in growth and technological progress without the endless regulatory bureaucracy they believe in. People who believe in the One True Church of Government cannot tolerate even a fictional exploration of alternatives, where every individual is held accountable for their actions and those who don’t work, don’t eat. Heresy!
Aside from the politics, this tale of conflict is superbly-written and engrossing. Kendra Pacelli is a UN Forces worker in logistics, framed for embezzlement and forced to escape to Freehold. Williamson spends the first half of the book detailing Kendra’s escape, exposure to the individualist culture of Freehold, and training for the armed forces of Freehold. She goes through old-school boot camp, contrasted with the soft training she had received on Earth for the much less disciplined UN force. She also meets two attractive love interests and loosens up enough to enjoy Freehold’s casual nudity and permissive attitudes toward sex, which are contrasted with Earth’s prudery and acceptance of rape as something that happens but is no big deal.
So there is more on Williamson’s mind here than libertarian politics. Some action-oriented readers will find the first half slow as he builds up detail about Kendra’s character and contrasts her military training with Earth’s (and we are seeing this relaxing of training standards going on right now in the US.) But this buildup pays off in the second half, as UN forces invade Freehold and the surviving Freehold forces fight back with guerrilla warfare and incredible sacrifices to free their planet.
The lack of respect for liberty and military mindsets is an increasing problem with the academic, government-reliant culture of the pampered urban citizenry in the US. If you are unable to identify with Kendra, who is one of the best active female characters I’ve seen in fiction, you need to get outside your bubble more. Government schools no longer teach the history of Western civilization, and it shows when supposedly educated people recoil in horror at realistic depictions of war and frontier society.
Williamson is an increasingly rare type — the fully-civilized man, capable of violence and aggression when called for, but also a well-read student of history capable of great emotional sensitivity. Some passages brought me to tears, and he keeps the political commentary incisive and plot-driven.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A libertarian political fantasy
By Charles van Buren
I wanted to really like this libertarian political fantasy as I am a Constitutionalist with libertarian leanings. However, the first half of the novel contains little action. It is instead devoted to introducing and developing characters, a utopian, libertarian fantasy worId and a mish mash of gobbledygook pagan religion. Williamson writes of an open free sex society with far too much detail about the physical aspects. I don't like being ambushed. If I want to read erotica, I will read an erotic book. I don't need or want graphic scenes in my sci-fi unless it is advertised as such and I deliberately choose it. The story line is very open and approving of sex between women. Perfectly normal on Freehold. No mention of same activity between men. No real action until about 50% through the book. The action is well written and held my interest. Then at about 87% through the book, at the end of chapter 48, the story reached a good place to wrap it all up but didn't. It continued, with much of the remainder being fairly dull.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Damn fine read to sum it up succinctly
By Sad Boosh
Damn fine read to sum it up succinctly.
Only complaint is the amount of time it takes to reach climax in the story and at one point feels like the book just starts over again (When she joins the military). But the last few chapters showing the results after the war, (and Neumann who I'd follow to hell and back as a soldier), was actually very nice to see in a sci-fi military novel. Plenty just end the battle and say "happy end!"
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