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Review Summaries
"Two races facing extinction. Can they save each other? And who will pay the price of the Samaritan? Kyle Bonar, an anthropologist on a Starborn generation ship, spearheads the movement to save the primitive Kalryn from their dying world. When a Kalryn leader steals his future wife and kills most of the landing party, Kyle discovers who must pay the price. "
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Plot
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story
Yes
Plotlets:
- colonizing/homesteading another planet
Spying & Investigations
Yes
What is main char. doing?
- rescue mission/escape from confinement
Inner Struggle
Yes
Plotlet:
- search for identity/new understanding
- change of heart
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Cultural problems, alien culture
Yes
Culture clash-
- one culture tries to impose its culture on another group
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
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male Alien
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- politician/elected ruler
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- bulging muscles
Setting
Terrain
- Forests
Spaceship setting:
- really, really giant spaceship/station
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- unfriendly aliens
- primitive 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?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- a significant amount of technical jargon
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of touching personal anatomy
- licking
- impregnation/reproduction
- society controls main character's sexing
- actual description of sex
Is this an e-book?
Yes
How much dialogue?
- significantly more descript than dialog