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S.L. Viehl’s novels have featured some of the most memorable heroines in the history of the genre: the “wonderful” Cherijo Torin of Stardoc and the “spunky yet vulnerable” Jory Rask of Blade Dancer. Now joining their ranks is the compassionate and heroic interstellar paramedic Dair mu T’resa.Lieutenant Dair mu T’resa heads up a squadron of SEAL (surgically enhanced/altered lifeform) pilots. They provide planetary patrol for the Pmoc Quadrant, including Dair’s home show more planet Kevarzangia Two—a world populated by the underwater dwelling ’Zangians. Saved at birth by a radical surgical procedure that introduced human DNA into her body, Dair has been able to survive for brief periods of time outside her aquatic habitat—opening her mind to the wonders of the universe’s other races and cultures, yet closing her off from her own people.
She finds a true home when her SEAL squadron teams up with medical personnel as a Bio Rescue unit, formed to respond to off-planet emergencies. But the altruism Dair embraces finds opposition among her fellow ’Zangians—and the Skartesh, a lupine alien species who fled their own dying world to settle in the dry land colony of Kevarzangia Two... show less
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Cherijo Torin may dusted Kevarzangia Two off her space suit, but for some residents, the Core plague she cured were long-reaching and life-altering. For Commander Dair mu T'resa the Core plague was all that and more - altered as a newborn by radical surgeries that melded human DNA with her own Zangian cells in a radical effort to save her life, she is now a SEAL (surgically enhanced/altered life-form) pilot for the League. She and her pod of fellow SEALs make up a planetary patrol/defense unit for K2.
The ongoing Hsktskt/League conflict has dramatically increased the number of refugees flooding in to K2 - unfortunately not all of them are what they seem. As Dair struggles to find her own way between the land dwellers of her adopted show more mother's race and her own people, tensions rise between the newcomers and K2's natives. Can two cultures so diametrically opposed ever find a happy medium?
Interesting to see what's happening elsewhere in Stardoc universe - much like Shockball the events here only tangentially relate to what's going on elsewhere. Which is actually rather refreshing. show less
The ongoing Hsktskt/League conflict has dramatically increased the number of refugees flooding in to K2 - unfortunately not all of them are what they seem. As Dair struggles to find her own way between the land dwellers of her adopted show more mother's race and her own people, tensions rise between the newcomers and K2's natives. Can two cultures so diametrically opposed ever find a happy medium?
Interesting to see what's happening elsewhere in Stardoc universe - much like Shockball the events here only tangentially relate to what's going on elsewhere. Which is actually rather refreshing. show less
Heavily charactered (is that a phrase?) space opera set in the Star Doc universe (but not part of the series. Viehl has a way with introducing inter-species interpersonal relationships...and all the complexity that implies.
Great adventure told from the point of view of a nonhuman protagonist. I was completely caught up in how all the different species related in this novel.
Set in Cherijo Grey Veil's universe. Commander Dair is an alter-form able to function above and below water. Space pilot, finds her home in the Bio-Rescue unit. A little dry, but a good read.
Supposed to be somewhat like Star Trek or good for fans of that.
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- 2004
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