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First Channel (Sime-Gen, Book 3)

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I first read this novel in high school, and it left quite an impression. The world of Sime/Gen is split into two groups. The dominant Simes who must kill and drain the energy fields of Gens to survive, and Gens, who are bred like cattle. Both Races are humanoid, except Simes have tentacle like appendages which come from their forearms when they are 'hungry.'

Rimon Farris is a son of a Gen breeder, a man who breeds and 'harvests's Gens to sell on the Sime market. When Rimon's girlfriend Kadi matures and develops Gen characteristics, Rimon will do anything to save her from the auction block.

This is an excellent series, sure to delight fans of science fiction and character-driven drama. The Sime/Gen conflict is interesting and creates believable tension throughout. Don't miss this one!

First Channel covers the beginnings of a new way of cooperation in a future world of impossible strifes and distrusts. When Rimon discovers his girl has 'turned out wrong', he risks his life to save her - and finds out that she is the one capable of saving him. How they work out a new life in a hostile land, gather around them a few others who prefer cooperation over killing, and found a new way of life is a good read on many levels: frontier adventure, relationship adventure , and learning to challenge old assumptions.

I read it about twice a year, just for the joy of it.

I also read these books in years past. Both the channel series and the dashau series. I would like to get my hands on copies again and reread. They were inventive,with great character development.

The Sime-Gens Novels were the most innovative I have ever read. i wish they would return to print so that I could give them to others to read

This book tells the story of the founder of the House of Zeor. He was the son of a rich man who raised gens for simes to kill. When his best friend a girl he grew up with turned gen and was sold he rescued her and made a run to the border with her to get her safely into gen territory. On the way he went into need himself but because he loved her he refused the kill and was dying. Because Kadi loved him she attempted to give him seln as he was dying expecting to die herself, but they both lived. When they returned home expecting his father to be happy for them they were told they had to leave and not come back. They left and found some land near the border close to a small religious colony of simes that had been born from gens. Their struggles and occasional heartbreak as they tried to understand how they they could live together without killing and to teach others how to do so was engrossing.

The planet that these people live on has a mutated humanity, split into two dominant forms, the Simes and the Gens.

The former exists as a type of energy vampire, using the others as a food and energy source.

When a wealthy young man's girlfriend turns into a Gen, he realises that something is wrong, and tries to save her rather than sell her into slavery, basically.