Lee Willard

Yoonbarla (The Second Expedition, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Desa has finally decided this is the year to make her trip to the largest city of this basin. While she's beginning to plan that trip, a young man comes in off the desert asking to learn to read. She soon learns he needs a mother more than a reading teacher, and wonders why she let herself get involved in this so soon before her trip. Then when he abandons her, she is hurt more than she would have thought, but is more determined than ever to escape Yoonbarla and the hills of Wescarp. It's an adventure getting ready for the trip and the annual logging party, but when that boy returns, her real adventure begins. By the end of this volume, Desa knows the facts of Alan's origin, but she does not sense even a wisp of the added responsibility she has taken on by offering to teach this boy to read.

Alan must not let anyone suspect that he's from another planet. That was Alan's most important order. To obey that order, he has to break all the others. He has to remain out of contact too long, he has to enter native dwellings and eat native food. He soon found his training was nowhere near enough, and that nothing about this society is what it seemed. Instead of being primitive, the village teacher knew how many nucleotides it takes to code an amino acid in all five evolutions on this planet, how to amplify music pneumatically and a little about the thermonuclear reactions that go on inside stars. The expedition is frightened by what he finds and orders him back aboard. But more than anything, the training did not prepare him for another thing he found on the study planet. He wasn't prepared for the power of love.

This is both a 'coming of age' story and a very different intercultural romance, one between a 20 year old from Earth and a 400 year old from the planet where humans have been modified to make the 'hippy' society real.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lee Willard
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005844561
• Artikelnr.: 72788130

Autorenporträt

I am a retired embedded systems engineer and sci-fi hobbyist from Hartford. Most of my stories concern Kassidor, 'The planet the hippies came from' which I have used to examine subjects like: What would it take to make the hippy lifestyle real? How would extended lifespans affect society? What could happen if we outlive our memories? How can murder be committed when violence is impossible?

I have recently discovered that someone new to science fiction should start their exploration of Kassidor with the Second Expedition trilogy. To the mainstream fiction reader the alien names of people, places and things can be confusing. This series has a little more explanation of the differences between Kassidor and Earth. In all of the Kassidor stories you will notice the people do not act like ordinary humans but like flower children from the 60's. It is not until Zhlindu that the actual modifications made to human nature to make them act that way are spelled out. To aide that understanding I've made The Second Expedition free.

I am not a fan of violence and dystopia. I believe that sci-fi does not just predict the future, but helps create the future because we sci-fi writers show our readers what the future will be and the readers go out and create it. I believe that the current fad of constant dystopia and mega-violence in sci-fi today is helping to create that world, and I mention that often in reviews and comments on the books I read. I also believe that the characters in those stories who are completely free of any affection are at least as unnatural as the modified humans of Kassidor.

In my reviews, * = couldn't finish it. ** = Don't bother with it. *** = good story worth reading. **** = great and memorable story. ***** = Worth a Hugo.