Song of Scarabaeus
Edie's long training as an advanced biocyph techie could not have prepared her for the challenges that would confront her when she is kidnapped by mercenary outlaws. In her scary new job assignment, she is yoked to a freedom fighter who doesn't know the meaning of the word "submit." The...
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Edie's long training as an advanced biocyph techie could not have prepared her for the challenges that would confront her when she is kidnapped by mercenary outlaws. In her scary new job assignment, she is yoked to a freedom fighter who doesn't know the meaning of the word "submit." The separation would mean a death sentence for both. A nuclear-powered romantic sci-fi thriller for fans of Linnea Sinclair and Ann Aguirre. A paperback original.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780061934735
Publish date: 27-04-2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition language: English
So in the end I *did* like this book. I'm writing this over a week after I finished it so this it's bullet time:- I didn't have a huge problem with the idea of slavery that was introduced in this world, mostly because it was just an element of their life. Some people treat the serfs like slaves, non...
It’s really difficult for me to improve on what’s been said about this book already. Just go look at Anachronist’s or AH’s reviews and you can consider yourself fully informed. For me, the difficulties in the beginning of the book weren’t due to the language fitting for science fiction. I could adju...
What I likedI have to admit Song of Scarabaeus started off slowly. It was sometimes difficult to wade through all sorts of technological terms to keep track of. Words like cypherteck, datastream, wet-teck interface, and biocyph retroviral automated terraformer (or BRATs for short) were thrown at me,...
I wanted to like this book. I want this sort of "urban fantasy in space" genre to be a thing, but so far I have been utterly underwhelmed by the books I've read that qualify.In Song of Scarabaeus (Side note: Who okayed this title? That's a terrible title!), most of the book's interpersonal tension c...
Reminding me very much of Sirantha Jax and the excellent Grimspace series, Song of Scarabaeus was an exciting sci-fi adventure. Edie and Finn, mentally 'leashed' together, make an sympathetic pair as they try to win their freedom from renegade mercs bent on profiting from stolen terraform seeds tha...
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