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Human to Human by Rebecca Ore
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Human to Human (edition 1990)

by Rebecca Ore (Author)

Series: Becoming Alien (3)

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The third book of "The Alien Trilogy."
Member:dragonasbreath
Title:Human to Human
Authors:Rebecca Ore (Author)
Info:Tor (1990), Paperback, 282 pages
Collections:Your library, SciFi/Fantasy
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Tags:Science Fiction, Tom Red-Clay, Colonization, Diplomacy

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Human to Human by Rebecca Ore

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This is the third book of the "Red Clay Tom" trilogy by Rebecca Ore. This trilogy is one of the best SF stories from the 1980s, and certainly deserved wider circulation than it got. (Some day, I suspect, it will be looked upon much as Zenna Henderson's "Pilgrimage" stories are now). It presents the eventual "meeting with alien races" in a very practical and believable manner, and presents several different races that often do not interact very well. In this respect the universe presented is very much a precursor to "Babylon 5" the TV series. ( )
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In the eighth year of the Sharwani Problem, my wife, Marianne, my son, Karl and I lived on the sixth floor of a building in Lucid Moment District in Karst City, on an artificial planet light years from Earth.
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Kidnapped by aliens from backwoods Virginia, raised to maturity as a diplomatic cadet for the Interstellar Federation of Sapients, Tom REd-0Clay knows almost more than he can bear about the ways of humans and aliens alike.
   Now, in the long-awaited conclusion to BECOMING ALIEN and BEING ALIEN, Ore fulfills the promise that has brought her the SF field's acclaim - as Tom returns to Earth at last to bring his fellow humans into Galactic civilization.

   He must deal with the subtleties of politics on both sides, with diplomats, politicians, and the halfworld of intelligence agencies - but, most of all, he must deal with the fact that he himself is a killer, and that human xenophobia may bring his entire race to grief.
    As betrayals mount and ambiguities multiply, the fate of the Earth rests on the judgement of one young man raised in both Appalachian poverty and interstellar power and wealth. To him, perhaps, all the players are aliens - or no pone.
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    HUMAN TO HUMAN, DUST TO DUST

   As smoke rose from the burning gun, the Sharwani rushed us. Granite stunned two of them, then I knocked the third down, his throat in my hands. And then suddenly I was wringing his neck, screaming in English "Pig, son of a bitch, used your own son, tricked us."
   And he died and went limp. More aliens rushed us. I sat up and screamed. Then I realized their shoulders were round and they were our own Jereks, from the institute of Control. I put my hands over my face and cried. they pulled my hands down and put plastic cuffs on me, as though I were a wild animal myself.
   The Barcons bent over the strangled Sharwani, thrusting trocars up his neck veins and arteries, but one of the Jereks clicked a stopwatch and said "Brain death, stop."
  One of the Jereks came up to me and checked my skull computer, then asked, "Is it easy for you to kill?"

    The conclusion of the Alien trilogy.
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