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PATCHER: The first two books
This two-book collection contains volumes GLEAN and KIN, the first two books of the PATCHER series.
Meet Corporal Kendal Harris: chef, IT tech, and budding con artist. It’s an easy gig, hiding in the cargo hold of a survey ship, easier still to run from your past. But at only fifteen, Kendal can’t run forever, and the survey ship he has stowed away on is turning out to be a one-way trip.
Bex is the last of a dying breed. A trained Tender, it’s Bex’s job to raise, foster, and introduce virgin species into her world’s ecosystem. Not an easy task. Between rampant poaching, predation, and the inevitable Great Sleep, her world is nearing the end of its sustainability. Resources have dwindled to desperate levels on her world, leaving many to harvest what they can to survive, even each other.
But when a strange new species emerges in Bex’s life, she must decide whether its life is worth saving, or if its body is worth salvaging.
Meet Corporal Kendal Harris: chef, IT tech, and budding con artist. It’s an easy gig, hiding in the cargo hold of a survey ship, easier still to run from your past. But at only fifteen, Kendal can’t run forever, and the survey ship he has stowed away on is turning out to be a one-way trip.
Bex is the last of a dying breed. A trained Tender, it’s Bex’s job to raise, foster, and introduce virgin species into her world’s ecosystem. Not an easy task. Between rampant poaching, predation, and the inevitable Great Sleep, her world is nearing the end of its sustainability. Resources have dwindled to desperate levels on her world, leaving many to harvest what they can to survive, even each other.
But when a strange new species emerges in Bex’s life, she must decide whether its life is worth saving, or if its body is worth salvaging.
296 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 1, 2016
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Martin Kee
9 books27 followersMartin Kee is the author of A LATENT DARK and BLOOM: OR, THE UNWRITTEN MEMOIR OF TENNYSON MIDDLEBROOK as well as a number of short stories and video games. His books exist along the fuzzy borderlands of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, and have been described as strange, imaginative, and visceral, defying categorization in any specific genre. When he grows up, he'd like to be a starship pilot, but until then he'll just write novels instead.
He currently lives in Idaho with his wife and a menagerie of small furry animals.
He currently lives in Idaho with his wife and a menagerie of small furry animals.
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January 9, 2018
I really liked it! The writing itself was decent, but I enjoyed the plot and character development a lot.
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