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Refugee - Bio of a Space Tyrant - Piers Anthony Book Review

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Review Summary
A young hispanic refugee flees the moon Callisto with his family. They board a space bubble. The bubble is attacked by pirates many times.
Ed Shoup, Resident Scholar

This was the first in the "Bio of a Space Tyrant" series.
In the first book, our hero, Hope Hubris, is just a kid.
He gets kicked around a lot as his family gets murdered,
raped, et. al. and he gets beaten up too. I guess this
is to make him angry so he kicks butt in the second book,
"Mercenary".

Steve, Resident Scholar


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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%




FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Romance Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Family relations Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - unemployed - student
Age: - a teen
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 - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - killer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - bulging muscles

Setting
Terrain - Space, need spacesuit
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human warship - someone is depressurized - futuristic human freighter/transport
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - empty, or nearly empty world
Planet outside solar system? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a significant amount of technical jargon
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - descript of touching personal anatomy - actual description of sex - descript. of private male anat. - rape/molest (yeech!)
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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