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Arrival

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Gisel Matah is a feisty spaceship teen. Although as big a nuisance as she can be for the crew and her father, she is wise for her years with an aptitude for languages. An ability that comes in handy when her ship jumps but instead of the intended planet they see a replica other-Earth. With depleted resources the crew have no choice but to land only to find mostly pre-industrial societies. How to sneak down without causing alarm, befriend communities that might be helpful and assist those friends with modern aids when essential is the meat in this Iskander installment. As the spirited main character, Gisel, has all the ingredients to keep a reader thirsting for more. She is the spaceship's version of Joan of Arc, sword fighting, and using strategies to defeat knights and villains.

This book is a page turner with fine elements of late-medieval economics, espionage and relationships with the added spice of futuristic technology discreetly applied. There are clever dialogue exchanges and neat setting descriptions such as: "The city of Leyden...seemed to sleep in the Fall sunshine as if it had experienced a very busy summer."

I am sure the readers of the first two Iskander books will be very happy to follow with this adventure. Even new readers, teen to adult, will be entranced; Arrival works as a stand alone novel.