When professional locater Cadence Drake is violently warned to stay away from a prospective job, she and her partner Badger become determined to recover a stolen hyper spaceship and encounter smugglers, thieves, and killer.
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Holly Lisle has been writing fiction professionally since 1991, when she sold FIRE IN THE MIST, the novel that won the Compton Crook Award for best first novel. She has to date published more than thirty novels and several comprehensive writing courses. She is currently working on the second book in her Cadence Drake series.
Holly had an ideal childhood for a writer...which is to say, it was filled with foreign countries and exotic terrains, alien cultures, new languages, the occasional earthquake, flood, or civil war, and one story about a bear, which follows:
"So. Back when I was ten years old, my father and I had finished hunting ducks for our dinner and were walking across the tundra in Alaska toward the spot on the river where we'd tied our boat. We had a couple miles to go by boat to get back to the Moravian Children's Home, where we lived.
"My father was carrying the big bag of decoys and the shotgun; I was carrying the small bag of ducks.
"It was getting dark, we could hear the thud, thud, thud of the generator across the tundra, and suddenly he stopped, pointed down to a pie-pan sized indentation in the tundra that was rapidly filling with water, and said, in a calm and steady voice, "That's a bear footprint. From the size of it, it's a grizzly. The fact that the track is filling with water right now means the bear's still around."
"Which got my attention, but not as much as what he said next.
" 'I don't have the gun with me that will kill a bear,' he told me. 'I just have the one that will make him angry. So if we see the bear, I'm going to shoot him so he'll attack me. I want you to run to the river, follow it to the boat, get the boat back home, and tell everyone what happened.'
"The rest of our walk was very quiet. He was, I'm sure, listening for the bear. I was doing my damnedest to make sure that I remembered where the boat was, how to get to it, how to start the pull-cord engine, and how to drive it back home, because I did not want to let him down.
"We were not eaten by a bear that night...but neither is that walk back from our hunt for supper a part of my life I'll ever forget.
"I keep that story in mind as I write. If what I'm putting on paper isn't at least as memorable as having a grizzly stalking my father and me across the tundra while I was carrying a bag of delicious-smelling ducks, it doesn't make my cut."
Cheerfully,
Holly Lisle
Holly had an ideal childhood for a writer...which is to say, it was filled with foreign countries and exotic terrains, alien cultures, new languages, the occasional earthquake, flood, or civil war, and one story about a bear, which follows:
"So. Back when I was ten years old, my father and I had finished hunting ducks for our dinner and were walking across the tundra in Alaska toward the spot on the river where we'd tied our boat. We had a couple miles to go by boat to get back to the Moravian Children's Home, where we lived.
"My father was carrying the big bag of decoys and the shotgun; I was carrying the small bag of ducks.
"It was getting dark, we could hear the thud, thud, thud of the generator across the tundra, and suddenly he stopped, pointed down to a pie-pan sized indentation in the tundra that was rapidly filling with water, and said, in a calm and steady voice, "That's a bear footprint. From the size of it, it's a grizzly. The fact that the track is filling with water right now means the bear's still around."
"Which got my attention, but not as much as what he said next.
" 'I don't have the gun with me that will kill a bear,' he told me. 'I just have the one that will make him angry. So if we see the bear, I'm going to shoot him so he'll attack me. I want you to run to the river, follow it to the boat, get the boat back home, and tell everyone what happened.'
"The rest of our walk was very quiet. He was, I'm sure, listening for the bear. I was doing my damnedest to make sure that I remembered where the boat was, how to get to it, how to start the pull-cord engine, and how to drive it back home, because I did not want to let him down.
"We were not eaten by a bear that night...but neither is that walk back from our hunt for supper a part of my life I'll ever forget.
"I keep that story in mind as I write. If what I'm putting on paper isn't at least as memorable as having a grizzly stalking my father and me across the tundra while I was carrying a bag of delicious-smelling ducks, it doesn't make my cut."
Cheerfully,
Holly Lisle
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Compulsively readable,
This review is from: Hunting the Corrigans Blood (Paperback)
With HUNTING THE CORRIGAN'S BLOOD, acclaimed fantasy novelist Holly Lisle makes her first foray into the treacherous waters of science fiction. And in this novel, those waters are treacherous indeed. As is common is Ms. Lisle's books, we feel that there is much more to the setting than just the glimpses we are getting as Cadence Drake speeds through them in search of the missing ship, Corrigan's Blood. Her world-building has always provided Lisle's work with a sense of depth that makes it almost impossible for the reader NOT to suspend their disbelief. But in CORRIGAN'S BLOOD, the background feels even deeper than in her Arhel novels, and the reader has the sense that the author is not yet finished with this setting. Yet in many ways this novel, despite the trappings of hard SF, is more of a thriller. It has the headlong pace, compulsive readability, and enormous stakes that characterize the best of thrillers. Lisle's novels have always had their dark side, but HUNTING THE CORRIGAN'S BLOOD doesn't seem to have any other side. Her prose is leaner, cut closer to the bone than is her usual wont, and yet perfectly appropriate in a novel that hurtles towards the denouement at a pace that would require an origami drive to achieve. I found myself literally unable to put the book down, walking into things as I read on my way from room to room. Though the almost-inevitable ending of this first volume was less than perfectly satisfying, if Lisle can bring the same emotional intensity and driving pace to future works in this milieu, one can hardly imagine that Cadence Drake's future adventures would fail to meet with increasing success. It's a crime to see a book this good go out of print so quickly, but this one is well worth the time and effort to hunt down a copy -- you will not be disappointed. One can only hope that Ms. Lisle's new publisher will take an interest in Cadence Drake's escapades, and give them a better home than Baen did.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent piece of work,
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This review is from: Hunting the Corrigans Blood (Paperback)
This is an outstanding piece of writing, especially for somebody who has never written SciFi before. The technology is plausible, the world-building excellent (and there's a lot of it too), and the characters seem like a logical extension of their environment.
Although this book starts off in the 'hard-boiled detective' genre, it quickly escalates into a compelling and hard-driving story that really defies conventions until the end which is logical and well-written but not quite as creative as the rest of the story. I hope that Ms. Lisle continues to write SciFi because she's already very good and I'm sure she will become even better with time.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A hidden gem in sci-fi horror,
This review is from: Hunting the Corrigans Blood (Paperback)
Cadence Drake and Badger are a brilliant duo in a universe not quite what it seems. This stand-alone novel has rich characters and universe, brutality and terrifying moments, and subtle emotional tugs that make it one of my 100 favorites in any genre. I wish Holly Lisle would write another one in this setting.
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