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Threshold

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Sometime in the 30th Century, an experimental test spacecraft from 500 years in the past, with its pilot alive, shows up near the space station Trust Territory of Threshold. The officials must determine what to do with this antique relic ship and it's ananchonistic pilot. Meanwhile, a scavenger ship has brought back from the depths of space, a mysterious sphere like nothing anyone has ever seen before. Amidst these events, the station is full of religious adherents making thier yearly pilgrimage toward their holy land on Earth. Among them is a wayward daughter trying to escape the restrictive life within her society, and the controlling nature of her father. Also, a conference is being held to determine the rights of alien races and bioengineered species that have been created as endentured servents that flares political and spiritual debates that threaten to set off riots within Threshold.
An Excellent book with a fast pace, and characters you really get to know and are able to relate to their situations. I really enjoyed how the story dealt with the issues regarding liberty, freedom of choice, and the rights inherent to all persons, races and genders, whether from earth or some other planet, or even some other time. It shows that no matter how far into the future, or how far away from Earth we progress, there will always be ethical issues that transcend time and space.

I picked it up because it was one of the few sci-fi books on the shelf here in Iraq- and I'm very glad I did! I really enjoyed it (thank you to whoever sent it out here!). I've been a lifelong fan of sci-fi, and this story- although reminiscent of a Buck Rogers sort of tale, has a lot more going for it. My only complaint about this book- there wasn't enough! The characters are good, and the story is good, believable- you just want more of it- more details, more development- they could have easily tacked on another couple hundred pages and I would have been super happy (I'm sad this book came to an end)... but thankfully it's actually a trilogy, which I'm ordering, and will have to finish when I get home in under a month!

Thankfully I found a good deal on a hardback version, so I can pass this paperback on to someone else here who will hopefully appreciate it as much as I did- especially since it was one of the few sci-fi books in a sea of romance novels (honestly, people send THOUSANDS of romance novels out here- granted, there are some females, but...) The world needs more of THIS- more books like Threshold that spark imagination, and take us to exciting new worlds and futures- visions that give us hope that we'll really get there someday, no matter what we're facing now.

What's interesting, and I just realized- although there is an antagonist, he's relatively minor, despite influential. There's no real villain that the hero has to fight/conquer... maybe down the road, but don't let that put you off!

The story would be great as a movie, or TV series (though the raccoon-like Brows would probably be difficult to pull off without being cheesy, even with today's CG).