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Book Review by John Dick
I love it when I read a new book whose story grabs my
attention from the start and captivates me through to the end. It is rare, but
I have just read such a book.
Fugitive from Asteron, the latest novel by author Gen
LaGreca, is not only a well written and fast-paced science fiction adventure
story, it is also a story about love and the rebirth of one man’s attitude and
spirit about life as a free individual who was enslaved for years in a faraway
tyrannical world. The novel’s basic intrigue, however, arises from the age-old
universal struggle of tyranny versus individual freedom, in the eventual
conflict of these two opposing worlds, and which of these worlds will survive.
But what I personally loved
most about this new novel was Ms. LaGreca’s continual injection of the amazing
wonders discovered in the world of freedom by the novel’s main character, Alex,
despite his own heroic struggles to save that world. Ms. LaGreca’s wonderful
descriptions of the free world’s inventions, private property, prosperity, and
the inhabitants’ character and relationships were so enticing. I found myself
wanting to learn more and more about the story’s world of freedom, a place
where I would want to live.
We normally don’t get to taste
such a view of how things could be in a free world from contemporary
literature. It is always so refreshing when we do. And my impressions were
confirmed from this particular quote in Fugitive
from Asteron:
“… I laughed – easily, freely,
lavishly, the way we Earthlings do.”
Bravo!
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John Dick
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