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Young Rissa
Young Rissa
Young Rissa
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Young Rissa

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The “blockbuster” first novel in the action-packed Rissa Kerguelen space opera (Seattle Times).

Rissa breathes a sigh of relief as the ship lifts off. It seems she has escaped danger, and no one has recognized the scientifically altered being as the beautiful young heir to the Hilzein Establishment—or so it seems. Possessing the only force capable of challenging the tyranny that devastated the Earth and universe, Rissa can do almost anything—then again, almost anything can happen to her while she is doing it too.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 1, 2014
ISBN9781497618145
Young Rissa
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F. M. Busby

F. M. Busby and his wife, Elinor, lived in Seattle with their two cats—Jeoffrey, the young black and white panther, and Molly Dodd, veteran calico—until his death on February 17, 2005, at age eighty-three. Buz’s eighteen published novels include eight in the universe of Rissa Kerguelen, three in that of Cage a Man, and another three in the Slow Freight grouping. Solo books are All These Earths, The Breeds of Man, The Singularity Project, and Islands of Tomorrow. Of more than forty shorter works, three have appeared in best-of-year anthologies; twenty are gathered into his collection Getting Home.  Growing up in the “Palouse country” of eastern Washington, Buz attended and graduated from WSU, studying physics and electrical engineering, which helped him keep his numbers straight. What with two vacations financed by the army, the graduating part took nine years, after which he moved to Seattle to engineer communications for the Alaska Comm System, get married, and settle down. When the ACS was sold in 1970, Busby opted for early retirement and began writing science fiction. In the army and later, he spent considerable time in Alaska, including a year in the Aleutians, and swore his tales of Amchitka weather were simple truth. His interests included aerospace, unusual gadgetry of most any kind, dogs, cats, and people, not necessarily in that order. His website is www.fmbusby.com.

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    This is reasonably entertaining space opera, somewhat marred by sophomoric sexual content (the first forty pages gives us prepubescent masturbation; our protagonist thinking "After all, he could have been worse" about the man who raped her and then made daily servicing of his needs the price to pay for not having to scrub floors for eternity; and a well-preserved seventy-year-old woman who conducts final exams to graduate from her training program in bed). About the only thought provoking thing in the book was the impact of time dilation on investment performance. By the time you get to where you going, the investments you left behind on Earth would have increased many times. Busby doesn't address how the money gets to you, though. Still, if you're looking for a bit of mindless escapism and a female-James-Bond-in-space kind of protagonist this might fit the bill. I assume that the sequels go on to tell of her return to Earth and dethroning of the evil corporate government.

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