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Review Summaries
"An alternative history based, in part, on the Sparta-Athens wars. The "bad" guys are portrayed in a very sympathetic manner if one can get beyond the violence. Not for the faint of heart. Excellent!
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Doon, Resident s. m. stirling Scholar
"This is three books in one detailing the life of a family line that belongs to a harsh society of an alternate Earth and told from their point of view. It starts at WW II and ends in a space conclusion in the near future. The Draka want to rule the world and they have a good foot hold, will the united states and the alliance be able to stop their plans?"
Kristie Jones, Resident S.M. Sterling Scholar
"A very unusual alternate history. After the American Revolution, Loyalists from the breakaway USA fled to South Africa, rather than Canada. They then went on to build a huge, militaristic, slave-holding empire called the Domination of the Draka. This volume (a collection of three earlier books) tells how the US and the Draka struggle to dominate the world in the 20th Century. Most of the main characters are Draka, giving many insights into this horrifying, fascinating alternate society."
Jeph Gord, Resident S. M. Stirling Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book Descript. of chases or violence - 30% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10% Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- alternate history
Political power play
Yes
Political plotlets
- preventing/managing clash/war between govts/kingdoms
Repressive society story
Yes
War or Invasion
Yes
Major kinds of combat:
- guns
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Who's a slave/repressed?
- humans are slaves of other humans
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Age:
- 20's-30's
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century
- 19th century
- 18th century
- near future (later in 21st century)
- current (early 21st century)
Spaceship setting:
- futuristic human warship
- futuristic human freighter/transport
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Takes place in spaceship?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of sex
- lesbians!
- description of breasts
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog