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Alicia (USA: NC) (2010/06/08):
Whipping Star (from Amazon’s product description): In the far future, humankind has made contact with numerous other species: Gowachin, Laclac, Wreaves, Pan Spechi, Taprisiots, and Caleban, and has helped to form the ConSentiency to govern among the species. After suffering under a tyrannous pure democracy, the sentients of the galaxy find the need for a Bureau of Sabotage (BuSab) to slow the wheels of government, thereby preventing it from legislating recklessly. BuSab is allowed to sabotage and harass the governmental, administrative, and economic powers in the ConSentiency. Private citizens must not be harassed, and vital functions of society are also exempt.
Jorj X. McKie is a born troublemaker who has become one of BuSab’s best agents. Drafted for the impossible task of establishing meaningful communication with an utterly alien entity who defies understanding, McKie finds himself racing against time to prevent a mad billionairess from wiping out all life in the ConSentiency.The Dosadi Experiment (from Amazon’s product description): Beyond the God Wall Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war-this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for Vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned how to pass through the shimmering God Wall to exact their dreadful revenge on the Universe that created them . . . The Santaroga Barrier (from Amazon’s product description): Santaroga seemed to be nothing more than a prosperous farm community. But there was something . . . different . . . about Santaroga. Santaroga had no juvenile delinquency, or any crime at all. Outsiders found no house for sale or rent in this valley, and no one ever moved out. No one bought cigarettes in Santaroga. No cheese, wine, beer or produce from outside the valley could be sold there. The list went on and on and grew stranger and stranger. Maybe Santaroga was the last outpost of American individualism. Maybe they were just a bunch of religious kooks. . . . Or maybe there was something extraordinary at work in Santaroga. Something far more disturbing than anyone could imagine. Soul Catcher (from dust jacket): a novel of the Spirit World, a tale of our own place and time. Charles Hobuhet, a Native American from the Pacific Northwest, has, in a spiritual transformation, become Soul Catcher, who guided life before the coming of the whites. Soul Catcher has been directed to kill an innocent in retribution for all that white society has done to injure his people and their land. He kidnaps 13-year-old David Marshall and they disappear into the wilderness of Washington State. As the two elude a massive manhunt a bond forms between them, making them not only captor and captive but also father and son, brothers, friends, kindred spirits. Soul Catcher is a tense drama, a stirring tale of friendship, madness, and coming of age, a tragic comment on the relationship between cultures and between man and his environment.
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