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Treelight
On Treelight Colony, nothing is what it seems.
Treelight Colony has enjoyed more than a hundred years of peaceful, agrarian life, in isolation from the rest of the civilized galaxy. But now they have been bought by the unsavory Pesc Corporation, who plan to drag them into the modern world and make them part of the interstellar family.
Pesc sends Marja Sienko, a social engineer on her first assignment, along with her corporate slave and a robotic secretary, to prepare the colonists to be modernised. But it isn't long before Marja suspects that the Corporation has something else in mind -- something both sinister and mysterious. And she is meant to play a part in their plans -- not as their delegate but as their victim.
While Marja struggles to modernise landowners who prefer to live like medieval vassals, the Star Brothers arrive for their periodic visit to check on the colony diocese, and Brother Brendan Stillman and his two semi-civilised Lost Rythan "helpers" discover that something is rotten in the "peaceful" colony of Treelight. Highwaymen abound, the bishop knows more than heís telling, and a group of "druids" have formed a symbiotic relationship with the surrounding forest.
Brother Brendanís superior, Father Moto, deploys Dust, a former criminal turned hacker, to snoop through the Pesc Corporationís files to discover whatís really afoot, while, back on Treelight, the native forest (whose "trees" are more than mere vegetation) slowly toils to reclaim the planet as its own.
When the truth comes out, it means life will never be the same again for any of them.
Treelight Colony has enjoyed more than a hundred years of peaceful, agrarian life, in isolation from the rest of the civilized galaxy. But now they have been bought by the unsavory Pesc Corporation, who plan to drag them into the modern world and make them part of the interstellar family.
Pesc sends Marja Sienko, a social engineer on her first assignment, along with her corporate slave and a robotic secretary, to prepare the colonists to be modernised. But it isn't long before Marja suspects that the Corporation has something else in mind -- something both sinister and mysterious. And she is meant to play a part in their plans -- not as their delegate but as their victim.
While Marja struggles to modernise landowners who prefer to live like medieval vassals, the Star Brothers arrive for their periodic visit to check on the colony diocese, and Brother Brendan Stillman and his two semi-civilised Lost Rythan "helpers" discover that something is rotten in the "peaceful" colony of Treelight. Highwaymen abound, the bishop knows more than heís telling, and a group of "druids" have formed a symbiotic relationship with the surrounding forest.
Brother Brendanís superior, Father Moto, deploys Dust, a former criminal turned hacker, to snoop through the Pesc Corporationís files to discover whatís really afoot, while, back on Treelight, the native forest (whose "trees" are more than mere vegetation) slowly toils to reclaim the planet as its own.
When the truth comes out, it means life will never be the same again for any of them.
399 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 7, 2017
About the author
Colleen Drippe
25 books7 followersColleen Drippé, surrounded by the usual trappings of the trade (cats and books and wonderful friends who answer technical questions), writes what she wants to read: science fiction and (sometimes) fantasy.
Drawing on a collection of passionate interests like history, linguistics, archæology, philosophy, assorted sciences including forensic anthropology, astronomy and stuff like that, she cooks up novels and short stories, avoids clichés (or at least tries to) and keeps things going on multi-levels of action and deeper speculation. What else would you expect from a life-long science fiction fan?
Drawing on a collection of passionate interests like history, linguistics, archæology, philosophy, assorted sciences including forensic anthropology, astronomy and stuff like that, she cooks up novels and short stories, avoids clichés (or at least tries to) and keeps things going on multi-levels of action and deeper speculation. What else would you expect from a life-long science fiction fan?
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May 21, 2022
A corporate rep is sent to the preindustrial planet Treelight to help the colonists adjust to their new corporate owners. She thinks her job is to get them to move from a pastoral to industrial stste but there is more afoot than she is willing to admit. The corpo slave attending her though... Meanwhile her introductory tour of the colony gets disrupted by some errant missionaries and the strange alien forest has it's own plans of attack. This standalone is a great entry to the Star Brothers universe.
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