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Young Rissa (Rissa Kerguelen #1)
by
F.M. Busby
Rissa breathes a sigh of relief as the ship lifts off. It seems she's escaped danger, and no one has recognized the scientifically altered being as the beautiful young heir to the Hilzein Establishment-or so it seems. Possessing the only force capable of challenging the tyranny that devastated the Earth and Universe, Rissa can do almost anything--then again, almost anythin...more
177 pages
Published
January 1st 2000
by Futura
(first published January 1st 1976)
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I didn't read the subsequent stories in the trilogy/universe, but the book description gives wrong information--she is not, at least at this point, a heir to the Hulzeins oligarchy.
This one gets four starts for no ill-wrought subplot to slow me down as I turned the pages and stayed up late to finish it. Fast and gripping reading, with very little meat around the main sketch of the story.
Growing up in a world where corporate UET rules all of North America and beyond, Rissa and her older brother...more
This one gets four starts for no ill-wrought subplot to slow me down as I turned the pages and stayed up late to finish it. Fast and gripping reading, with very little meat around the main sketch of the story.
Growing up in a world where corporate UET rules all of North America and beyond, Rissa and her older brother...more
This was the book that got me reading FM Busby originally. I found it in a second hand shop in Christchurch about 20 yrs ago. Bought it, read it and went looking for the rest of the series. I'm going through and re-reading a lot of old favs.
The book and series that totally got me into Sci Fi. Have read the series probably 3 or 4, maybe 5 times in the last 20 (maybe 25) or so years.
Classic-style SF, munchkin heroine, simple motivations, uncomplicated characters and a happy ending. What better way to lose an hour?
I haven't thought about Rissa for years but she was a strong female character, made me proud.
Aug 21, 2010
Rebecca Huston
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One of my favourites from my teenage years, and still pretty readable decades later.
Distopic space opera - A novel of a future owned by a malign corporate run government that kills the first alien visitors to steal the technology and use it to create & control their own hegemony of planets. Rissa Kerguelen is a ward of the state but unwilling to submit she escapes to join the underground resistance fighters. She trains then rises to command in the rebellion. The rebellion is the remnant of a once powerful corporation from before UET took total control.
This is a re-issue of course, of the 'preques' to FM Busby's Kergulian/Trgare series. Itmade me remember how much I loved his books and enjoyed them, and how I miss them because they are packed away in storage.
good enough that I ordered the next 2 in the series...
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A favorite of mine since high school. I found it at a used bookstore recently along with the rest of the series.
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May 01, 2013
Legato Darksummers
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