Offspring: A Novel of the Silent Empire
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The lush and beautiful forest planet of Bellerophon is home to a cacophony of noises, but its resident psychics are known as the Silent. Previously they could travel to the Dream, a telepathic plane of existence where they could twist the laws of reality. But that time is over...
One madman's lust for power tore the Dream asunder. Now only a handful of the Silent can enter it. Kendi Weaver is one of them.
As an election for the governorship of Bellerophon begins, Kendi is caught in the crossfire. Attempts on his life—and a rash of Silent kidnappings—point to a political enemy...or a personal one. Either way, the future of the Dream is at stake. And Kendi fears it may become a nightmare.
Steven Harper
Steven Harper Piziks was born with a last name no one can reliably spell or pronounce, so he usually writes under the name Steven Harper. He grew up on a farm in Michigan but has also lived in Wisconsin and Germany and spent extensive time in Ukraine.So far, he’s written more than two dozen novels and over fifty short stories and essays. In 2022, his short story "Eight Mile and the City" in When Worlds Collide by Zombies Need Brains was nominated for the Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award for Short Fiction. When not writing, he plays the folk harp, lifts weights, and spends more time on-line than is probably good for him. He teaches high school English in southeast Michigan, where he lives with his husband. His students think he’s hysterical, which isn’t the same as thinking he’s funny.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Offspring (I think it was originally going to be titled Children) picks up shortly after the return of Kendi and his crew after having rescued Keith and Martina from enslavement.Kendi and Ben plan to start their family using the batch of embryos from which Ben himself originated, but of course there are a few complications. An election is impending for governorship of their home planet Bellerophon, and Kendi and Ben are inevitable involved. During the campaign attempts are made on Kendi’s life, there is also a series of kidnappings of both Silent and non-Silent; add to that the possibility of a spy in the camp, blackmail, and accusations of corruption and the return of an old enemy, there is more than enough to keep the story moving from one crisis to another.Offspring is without doubt full of action, and to add to the drama there are plenty of unknowns to keep us guessing. As the story builds towards its climax the pace quickens and the tension builds; and the book is difficult to put down.As good as any of the books in the Silent Empire series, and with the same very likeable core group of characters, plus a few new names (but sadly still little of Segal), Offspring certainly keeps this series alive. While it makes for a most entertaining read, I have one complaint, and it is common to all the Silent Empire novels, it is the lack of subtlety in the way Steven Harper employs the dialogue to advance, recap or explain the narrative. It is of course a standard method, but often here it comes across as a little clumsy, even patronising; with the result that it lessens the tension and interrupts the flow to the action. Nonetheless if Harper decides to write yet another in this series I will without doubt be reading it.