Lee Willard

The Pass (The Further Adventures of Desa, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Desa has never faced as physically difficult a situation as she had to endure in the years 552411 and 552412 when she made the journey from the Dos basin to the Zhlindu basin thru the Kinsheeta waste. On Earth, this happens during May, June and July of 2212. She is 350 Earth years of age at the time, about a century and a half by her own calendar. By this time none are considered to be a youth any more, so her judgment should be as good as it's ever going to get.

Between the great basins of Dos and Zhlindu lies the desolate highlands of Kinsheeta. Up there the temperatures can pass 140° during Afternoonday, -40° during Dawnsleep. Over most of the Kinsheeta the air is too thin to sustain human life, but there is a narrow and difficult passage thru that wasteland that a human can get thru, though there are large segments of Kassidor's population that would find the air at sea level way too thin. Crossing this pass involves going to over thirteen thousand feet, twenty two thousand feet higher than her original home. There is little if any water in these wastes and what little there is, is hotly contested. There are many dangerous forms of life that can live there, even the most dangerous life form of all, feral humans.

In this passage the physical abilities of Desa's little family are tested to their absolute limits, but what is also tested are their relations with each other. They have to re-examine why they came on this trip in the first place, what it meant to each of them and what it means to their relationship once this is over, if they make it at all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lee Willard
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005327644
• Artikelnr.: 72788255

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.