"Safron and Celeste Wilde are a couple who are trying to make a new life for themselves on the new colony on Planet Orkol. When they get there they find that things aren't as they expected. Ramshackle robots and infertile land are all that is around on Orkol, until they learn of the radioactive material being mined. Safron soon gets a job working in the lab for Haldane, the executive of the mining company. He works under Hawkins who has perfected a weapon of mass destruction and plans to use it. Safron can't do anything about this until one day he is exposed to radiation from a new sample of ore that mutates him into a huge powerful lifeform. His first impulse is to destroy the lab and the evil Haldane and Hawkins then find his wife and escape back to earth where he might find a way to get his old body back."
Neil Morey, Resident Leo Brett Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book Descript. of chases or violence - 30% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10% Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10%
Tone of book
- very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story
Yes
Plotlets:
- colonizing/homesteading another planet
Lifeform altered?
Yes
Kind of alteration:
- Scientifically turned into another lifeform
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- scientist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- bulging muscles
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- business executive
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Terrain
- Desert
- Mountains
Earth setting:
- medium future 22-24th century
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- empty, or nearly empty world
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Planet outside solar system?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- some scientific explanation
Sex in book?
Yes
How much dialogue?
- significantly more descript than dialog
