Spooner Federation series by Francis W Porretto
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Overview: Fran is an engineer and fictioneer who lives on the east end of Long Island, New York. He’s short, bald, homely, has bad acne and crooked teeth. His neighbors hold him personally responsible for the decline in local property values. His life is graced by one wife, two stepdaughters, two dogs, four cats, too many power tools to list, and an old ranch house furnished in Early Mesozoic style. His 13,000 volume (and growing) personal library is considered a major threat to the stability of the North American tectonic plate.
Genre: Science Fiction
Which Art In Hope: Hope circles a white dwarf 26 light years from Earth. Its denizens are the descendants of the Spooner Federation: anarchists who fled the Solar System just ahead of a military expedition intended to annihilate them.
When the Spoonerites’ planetoid-starship entered orbit around Hope, it looked like a dream world. The planet was strikingly Earthlike. Its atmosphere was breathable, with slight overages of oxygen and argon. Only plant life showed on the scanners. Fresh water was abundant. The crust was rich in antimony and copper, but otherwise terrestrial in composition.
Yet Earth flora introduced to Hope’s soil withered and died rapidly. Earth fauna would not reproduce. Human birth rates were sluggish, and many of the children were handicapped. Only longevity therapies developed in flight prevented the colony’s demise. For many years the colony scratched by on hydroponics, until a secret Cabal learned to create Gods of Hope: men gifted with unusual psi powers, trained and drugged into undertaking the protection of Earth-based life from the flows of heavy metals that perfuse Hope’s soil.
The job is lethal. Despite the ingenious longevity therapies available, within 50 years each God succumbs, first to madness, then to progressive neurological deterioration and death. Immediate replacement is mandatory.
In 1200 years, there have been 24 Gods of Hope. The Cabal seines candidates from the population on the basis of demonstrated psi powers, subjects them to an unchanging conditioning program, and elevates them to the Godhood when the time is right.
Freedom’s Scion: Althea Morelon, polymath, psion, and highest child of the anarchic world of Hope, wants to go to Earth to learn what’s become of Man’s silent homeworld. But her clan, the highest of Hope, and her husband Martin won’t let her go willingly. Clan rivalries, dynastic tensions, and love obstruct her path, as Hope gestates what its settlers fled Earth to escape: the State.
Freedom’s Fury: The women’s hour has come:
The highest child of the anarchic world of Hope vows vengeance upon a whole planet…for using her as a weapon.
The greatest healer in history is cast out by her clan…for falling in love.
A planet ruled solely by women seeks to destroy the freest society in history…to avert punishment for an unthinkable crime.
The fate of Mankind hangs once more in the balance.
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