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    Across the Plains of Angar
    Across the Plains of Angar
    Across the Plains of Angar
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    Across the Plains of Angar

    By Warren X. Ison

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    It has been four years since an explosion and fire on the exploration ship Galileo forced the seven survivors to land on the planet Angar, the story told in Across the Plains of Angar. A crash landing near the equator put them in the Hotmo Empire where they were captured. The three women among the survivors were kept as hostages by the Hotmo king, while the men were made to be Godly Messengers, telling the people to obey the King as the Chosen of the Greatest God, Kala, and to perform 'miracles' with their gear as proof of Divinity. Agents from the free republic of Siva-Tonka, the sworn enemy of the Hotmo, are sent to investigate. As told in Across the Seas of Angar, they found the survivors, rescued them and fought their way back to Siva-Tonka. Now the survivors live, teaching Tonkans the ways of Earth science, medicine and technology. Knowing there is no way back to Earth, they have all made lives, in their different ways, and become citizens of the Republic.
    None of the survivors has followed a stranger path than Major John Hocta. A career soldier, he entered the Tonkan military, sweated his way through officer’s training school, and learned to fight with pre-gunpowder weaponry, and now serves the Republic as commander of the 7th Mobile Unit, patrolling the Republic’s boundaries, on watch for incursions by the Nomads who inhabit the vast grasslands east of Tonka. Using tales of Custer’s 7th Cavalry as inspiration, he has turned the 7th in to a crack unit, the best on the Frontier. The one detail of the story he left out was the defeat of the 7th Cavalry and Custer’s grisly fate. His soldiers are confident as they leave on an expedition to punish a band of Nomads for a raid on a Tonkan settlement. But now, out on the plains, surrounded by three Nomad hordes, Hocta wonders if he might be in the same kind of trouble that Custer found. Is he smarter than Custer or has he led his men to their deaths? The decisions he must make could change life on the Frontier forever – and bring himself and his men safely home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJanet Rice
    Release dateJul 24, 2016
    ISBN9781370780242
    Across the Plains of Angar
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    Warren X. Ison

    Warren X. Ison was a true Renaissance man, a scholar, teacher, B-24 mechanic, rail-fan, hitch-hiker, husband, and my father. He was the son of a teacher from South Dakota and a Bavarian-born steam engineer and Union man. An Ohio boy, he grew up during the Great Depression, went to college, and then to war. After the War, he continued his education, finishing a Masters in History at Bowling Green of Ohio. His calling was as an educator – he taught in small rural schools across Michigan, including the newly formed Maple Valley district in Nashville and Vermontville, Michigan where he was the first librarian.He married my mother, Mary Allen, a good Mormon girl from Utah (and that is a story in itself). He remarried after Mary’s death, to Ferceyna Easterlin – who he picked up in the Graduate Library of the University of Michigan. They were in a Reference class together and they both wanted a smart person in their lives. She was the sort of woman who could understand someone deciding to hitch-hike to Alaska and ride trains for fun. And she didn’t mind an instant daughter.This book, and several others, are products of my father’s imagination. He wrote this book in the 1960’s – while I was in high school, so in some ways I grew up with Hila and Beta and the others. He wrote – and re-wrote – and edited – this book on a typewriter – which meant multiple copies, lots of paper, and a good deal of frustration, but ending in a manuscript that he sent out to publishers. My father never did find a publisher, but here we are, 50 years later, and this is my chance to share the world my father’s imagination created. I hope you’ve enjoyed it.Janet RiceRound Rock, Texas2015

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