Award-winning author Valerie Freireich has the uncanny ability to create stories that are at once boldly imaginative and entertaining, yet masterfully portray the layered complexities of alien cultures. In The Beacon, on a future Earth, the arrival of a vast alien starship forces the entire world to confront a deadly virus.
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A network known as the Assembly unites the minds of the people of Earth. A spaceship arrives with four Travelers who claim to be human descendants, and Judge Stefan Acari befriends one of the Travelers. Soon he must decide if the visitors are really friends or disease carriers sent to infect and exterminate humanity. Through strong characterization, Freireich (Becoming Human, ROC: NAL 1995) depicts the struggle between xenophobia and isolationism. Recommended for sf collections.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Richly detailed study of the definition of humanity,
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Ms. Freireich fully explores and develops her characters. Per Stefan Acari is the very model of honesty and integrity, until his beliefs are shattered by personal and governmental betrayals. Through what appears to be a chance meeting of an offworld visitor, Beatrice, Stephan is forced to re- examine the world around him and his place in it. The results of his examination may have a cataclysmic effect on Earth, but this impending doom is outweighed by his need for justice and fairness.
The Beacon is an in-depth study of human nature at the height of fantasy devoted to human characteristics.
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