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BOOK THREAD: Part One
Title: Runner
Author: William C. Dietz
Genre: Science Fiction
Comments: This book departs from Dietz's regular military sci-fi area somewhat. Here we have a tale of a Runner that is tasked with delivering a boy to another planet to be tested by the religious authority there to see if he is indeed the reincarnated teacher of that same religion. Another sect of that same religion is out to kill the boy, as they believe a child of theirs is the teacher reincarnate.
The task of delivering a person to another planet might seem simple, except that in this future, humanity has been sliding back into barbarism for some time. Humans dwell on countless planets, but the only thing tying them all together is a fleet of automated ships which are slowly but surely breaking down. Add in assassins, a "sensitive" that can commune with the dead but doesn't necessarily want to, a secret society out to restore the glory of humanity and its crumbled empire, and you have an interesting read.
Not heavy reading by any means, and I wish the author had filled out some more details, but that may come as I approach the end of the book. A good diversion for an afternoon.
Title: Runner
Author: William C. Dietz
Genre: Science Fiction
Comments: This book departs from Dietz's regular military sci-fi area somewhat. Here we have a tale of a Runner that is tasked with delivering a boy to another planet to be tested by the religious authority there to see if he is indeed the reincarnated teacher of that same religion. Another sect of that same religion is out to kill the boy, as they believe a child of theirs is the teacher reincarnate.
The task of delivering a person to another planet might seem simple, except that in this future, humanity has been sliding back into barbarism for some time. Humans dwell on countless planets, but the only thing tying them all together is a fleet of automated ships which are slowly but surely breaking down. Add in assassins, a "sensitive" that can commune with the dead but doesn't necessarily want to, a secret society out to restore the glory of humanity and its crumbled empire, and you have an interesting read.
Not heavy reading by any means, and I wish the author had filled out some more details, but that may come as I approach the end of the book. A good diversion for an afternoon.