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Kati
of Terra: Book One – Escape from the Drowned Planet
In
saving her small son from alien abductors, a 24 year old Earth woman
named Katie finds herself abducted instead. She awakens from an
alien drug-induced stupor on a spaceship, in a room full of children,
both human and alien, along with two other young women.
For a while, they adapt to the situation as best they can, keeping
the youngsters calm and entertained. But, when a drugged alien man
wearing a uniform is added to the captive cargo, it becomes clear
that this is an intergalactic slave operation.
In
order to facilitate communications, the captives are implanted with
“translation nodes” – living entities, that are normally quite
docile, merely enhancing certain brain functions, such as language
acquisition. However, Katie discovers that she has accidentally
received a very special “granda node”, a long-lived node with its
own cantankerous personality, including a fondness for criminality
and lethal weaponry. Fortunately for Katie, it also values its
freedom. With its help, she escapes on a fringe planet, dragging the
peace officer along with her.
She
finds herself on a strange world, with a slightly deranged
personality in her head, quite possibly a killer, partnered with a
man from an advanced civilization who abhors killing. It turns out
that he is a Federation Peace Officer, captured by the slavers while
attempting to bring them to justice. His task is complicated by the
fact that he has sworn to make every effort to avoid the taking of
sentient life during the performance of his duties. He can and does,
however, make quite vigorous use of non-lethal weaponry. Before
leaving the ship, Katie had promised to help her co-captives gain
their liberty. Thus, she and the alien peace officer make common
cause to stop the slavers.
But
first they must find their way off this apparently primitive planet
and make their way to the Federated Civilization, pursued by a small
group of slavers who have been left on the planet to re-capture them.
The planet had suffered a global warming catastrophe some centuries
back – thus the locals refer to it as the Drowned Planet. Though
this has caused the planet to revert to a depopulated pre-industrial
state of development, the inhabitants are a wily and resourceful
bunch, mostly helpful, but sometimes dangerous.
Kati
(to mark her escape from the slavers, she adapts a slight name
change) and Mikal seek a Federation beacon, which had been hidden by
authorities on this planet centuries ago, to aid in just such
contingencies (a longstanding Federation policy for fringe worlds).
Thus, they embark on an arduous trek across two continents and an
ocean, seeking the temple that contains the beacon. Their journey
includes travel by foot, cart, riverboat, tall sailing ship, and pack
animal, always pursued by the deadly slavers.
For
the most part, all they have to depend on are their wits, guile,
charm and acting ability, while the slavers have the advantages of
advanced technology and ruthlessness. Fortunately, they make many
friends along the way, who help them in their difficult quest. The
result is a series of adventures, both frightening and funny, as well
as cast of engaging personalities.
To
complicate matters for Katie, she finds herself falling in love with
this strange, handsome and amusing alien. He seems to be
reciprocating, though they both struggle against a romantic
entanglement.
Read
on to see if Kati and Mikal can escape from the Drowned Planet and
ultimately bring the slavers to justice, as Mikal has sworn to do,
while freeing the remaining unfortunate captives as Kati has also
sworn to do.
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