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Loading... Earthbound (The Reach, Book 1) (Volume 1) (edition 2015)by Mark R. Healy (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Very tight writing, professional. The story was good and unique as were the characters. A couple of instances where tense, confrontational dialogue felt a bit stilted but very good as a whole. I did feel like the story started to bog down a bit as he continued to climb the tower, but I never lost interest. ( ) Earth has undergone deleterious climate change and pollution, its population now dwindling to what may be the last sizeable city at the foot of the remaining functional space elevator, its slums, and sparsely populated wastelands. Those who could fled to the space colonies. Most of those who couldn't, hope to follow. But that requires either insane amounts of money, or outworlder sponsorship. The protagonist has neither and when sponsorship comes seemingly out of nowhere, he expects to face a gauntlet on his way in and up after his botched attempt to hike a ride out years ago for himself and the girl he loved indirectly resulted in many deaths. And a gauntlet it is, ladden with memories, on his way up with cops after him, thugs after his ticket out, in the company of an interesting girl he agrees to take up in exchange for the cash he'll need to help him escape and not be sent back immediately for lack of funds. no reviews | add a review
The Earth is suffocating under toxic skies and there's only one way for those left behind to escape - the space elevator that sits atop the massive structure known as the Reach.Knile Oberend is an outcast, a man exiled for the crimes of his past. Thrown an unlikely lifeline, he has less than forty-eight hours to cash in his ticket at the top of the Reach and escape off-world.Disgraced cop Alec Duran had a bright future until he made one fateful mistake. Now his last shot at redemption becomes entwined with the fate of the very man who ruined his life three years ago.Alton Wilt, an underworld boss desperate to leave Earth, falls upon a rare find - the name of a man who is about to be granted passage off-world. With his minions in tow he is hell bent on stealing that privilege for himself.As time runs out, these three men find themselves on a collision course that will lead to a confrontation from which only one can emerge victorious. No library descriptions found. |
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