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In the crackling first book of Kate Elliott's Highroad trilogy, strong-spirited Lily Ransome leaves her home planet--and the life she's always known--to rescue an abducted friend. Willful as well as physically brave, Lily Ransome is dissatisfied by the options available to her on Unruli: She can either join her family's lucrative mining business or begin procreating. When Heredes, her beloved martial arts instructor, tutor, and father figure, is kidnapped by alien bounty hunters, Lily spurns show more the expectations of her home planet and ventures into space to find him. Befriending a persecuted minority class of humans called the Ridani, she becomes involved in an intergalactic rebellion and finds love in an unexpected place--as well as true strength within herself. A Passage of Stars is the first book of the Highroad trilogy, which continues with Revolution's Shore and The Price of Ransom. show lessTags
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Elliott, Kate. A Passage of Stars. Bantam, 1990. Highroads 1.
In A Passage of Stars, Kate Elliott, a.k.a. Alis A. Rasmussen, has written a gender-swapped take on Star Wars that almost works. Lily is a farm girl who wants to get off planet. She gets her chance when aliens kidnap her martial arts instructor. She grabs the first shuttle out to rescue him but soon finds herself in the alien brig. Along the way, she picks up some allies. She has a cute musical robot named Bach. So far, so good. But then the story takes a dark political turn, that one doesn’t expect. 3.5 stars.
In A Passage of Stars, Kate Elliott, a.k.a. Alis A. Rasmussen, has written a gender-swapped take on Star Wars that almost works. Lily is a farm girl who wants to get off planet. She gets her chance when aliens kidnap her martial arts instructor. She grabs the first shuttle out to rescue him but soon finds herself in the alien brig. Along the way, she picks up some allies. She has a cute musical robot named Bach. So far, so good. But then the story takes a dark political turn, that one doesn’t expect. 3.5 stars.
After her teacher is abducted by aliens, Lilyaka Hae Ransome runs away from her home planet to rescue him. On the way, she encounters revolutionaries, smugglers, and her enigmatic soul mate.
Lily is a paragon of adolescent wish-fulfillment. She's beautiful. And oppressed! Her parents don't understand her. But she's the best pupil of her sensei, and she's also got unexpected technical expertise (which is only a step or two removed from magic powers). And she's got a robot sidekick!
And this is all in the first ten pages.
So A Passage of Stars wasn't very good (although Kyosti makes an intriguing Byronic hero, albeit more Don Juan than Childe Harold), but whatever -- I read it exclusively for its tenuous connection to the Jaran books, and show more on that account, it satisfied. show less
Lily is a paragon of adolescent wish-fulfillment. She's beautiful. And oppressed! Her parents don't understand her. But she's the best pupil of her sensei, and she's also got unexpected technical expertise (which is only a step or two removed from magic powers). And she's got a robot sidekick!
And this is all in the first ten pages.
So A Passage of Stars wasn't very good (although Kyosti makes an intriguing Byronic hero, albeit more Don Juan than Childe Harold), but whatever -- I read it exclusively for its tenuous connection to the Jaran books, and show more on that account, it satisfied. show less
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- A Passage of Stars
- Original publication date
- 1990
- People/Characters
- Lilyaka Hae Ransome; Joshua Li Heredes; Kyosti Bitterleaf Hakoni; Bach 1689
- Dedication
- This book is dedicated first of all to the original Lily, and second to all the teachers who have helped me along the road.
But most of all, this is Jane's book.
Thank you, Jane. - First words
- Because she would, inevitably, have hit her, Lily chose not to throw her glass at her mother.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The shuttle continued to climb, a steady curve lengthening into the infinite expanse of sky.
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