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Cognate [Paperback]

R. C. Brojim (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)


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December 15, 2000
Dani Forrest can't put her finger on what's wrong with her ship - the usually reliable UCSS Boadicea - or her Minority Fleet crew. Both are behaving erratically, and that's worrying her.

She had hoped to figure it out on shore leave, but her orders have changed, and now she's trying to resolve the mysterious disappearance of a Khrar warship while simultaneously avoiding intergallactic war.

Enter the beautiful and suspicious Captain Ki of the Interstellar Alliance ship Heaven's Bow. What she knows - and what she claims not to know - make Dani very skeptical. All this would be easier to take if Dani's always-dependable First Officer, the intersexual Ma'at, hadn't vanished on a simple reconaissance mission to a small planetoid.

This first Minority Fleet adventure introduces the reader to the rainbow assortment of Commander Forrest's crew, and certainly goes "where no lesbian fiction has been before"!


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[Cognate] was well written and edited...[and] was intricate enough to keep me on my toes... -- Duffy Holt

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Women's Work Press is thrilled to debut the prodigious talent of R.C. Brojim. She is a careful and painstaking writer who gives her readers a well-planned and well-executed story that is entertaining to read.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Womens Work Pr Llc (December 15, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1930874006
  • ISBN-13: 978-1930874008
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,141,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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3.0 out of 5 stars A tale of two captains, February 27, 2002
This review is from: Cognate (Paperback)
Captain Dani Forrest heads the Boadicea, a ship in the Explora Command's Minority Fleet, where all gay and lesbian personnel are placed. Her crew is suffering from a mysterious malady when they're called on to investigate a potential act of war. Captain Bajana Ki's ship Heaven's Bow is from a different interstellar alliance and is on a mission to find the planet of their origin. The two ships become trapped by pirates and must get over their hostilities to work together. It's a great story, not unlike James Alan Gardner's "Expendable" series with Festina Ramos, and I did enjoy it for the most part. I felt that the story was quite weighty though. There are so many plots going on (that I didn't mention above) that three-fourths of the way through the novel I felt it would never ever end. Just when I thought things would be resolved, something else popped up. It did seem a bit much, but I still did enjoy the book overall and would read a sequel.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Finally! An intelligently written lesbian novel!, November 29, 2001
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Deb D. "hrznhrz" (Arlington, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cognate (Paperback)
I had given up on lesbian fiction - tired of the same old story line: Girl becomes involved with another woman. Girl realizes she's a lesbian. Girl has fabulous sex! Girl comes out to friends and family. Girl goes through tough times. Girl works through it and is happy! (And, of course, some obligatory ho-hum erotica thrown in for good measure.)

Cognate is so NOT that. It's intelligently written (sometimes the author shows off a bit too much with her vocabulary), and even though the characters in the story just happen to be gay, that's not the point! Ironic, isn't it, how a sci-fi novel (not my usual genre, mind you) can be so much like real life! Yes! We're gay! But that's not the point! Many thanks to Womens Work Press for giving us some lesbian fiction with self-respect and integrity.

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