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Review Summaries
"In a distant future, when humanity has expanded over the Galaxy, in a primitive world only recently colonized,Lalonde, the attempt of contact by an alien energy being frees the lost souls of the beyond, who begin possessing humans. Joshua Calvert, a pilot-trader on the Space Station Tranquillity recovers a computer database who will solve the mistery of what happened to a vanished xenoc race. He will later go to various planets, unknowingly allowing the possessed criminal Quinn Dexter to escape the confinement on Lalonde. Quinn Dexter will overthrow his possessor and gain the magical powers of the possessed. Joshua seduces the joung Louise in the conservative planet Norfolk, and later he will go on a rescue mission of the children-refugees on Lalonde. He saves them, but the possession is spreading."
ANGELO VENTURA, Resident Peter F. Hamilton Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book Descript. of chases or violence - 20% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20% Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 40%
Tone of book
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Tech./$$$/Info hunt
Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying
- info about lifeform(s)/society/phenomena
If an invasion, from Earth/human POV:
- subtle invasion (mind control, lookalikes)
War or Invasion
Yes
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Escaping from behind enemy lines?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- trader
- fighter (air/space) pilot
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- accused criminal
- religious figure
Has magical powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- can change shapes
- fire/thunder/weather cntrl
- telekinesis
- mind control
- super strength
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
- wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an above average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Setting
Terrain
- Jungle
- Mountains
- Forests
- Space, need spacesuit
- Asteroid
Spaceship setting:
- futuristic human warship
- a space station
- futuristic human freighter/transport
- really, really giant spaceship/station
- one or two man fighter/scoutship
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- humans in a futuristic society
- humans in a primitive/fantasy society
- neutral aliens
- empty, or nearly empty world
Planet outside solar system?
Yes
Takes place in spaceship?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- an average amount of scientific explanation
- a lot of techical jargon
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- descript of touching personal anatomy
- actual description of sex
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