Freedom's Ransom: (The Catteni sequence: 4): a masterful display of storytelling and worldbuilding from one of the most influential SFF writers of all time...
Jul 2012 · The Catteni Sequence Book 4 · Random House
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Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, open your mind to new worlds and new concepts. Worlds where humans are the slaves of aliens and survival is something that must be fought for... Perfect for fans of David Eddings, Brandon Sanderson and Douglas Adams.
'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES
'I could not put the books down until I had read all four' -- ***** Reader review
'Very gripping' -- ***** Reader review
'Anne McCaffrey is a super-talent' -- ***** Reader review
'Impossible to put down' -- ***** Reader review
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The inhabitants of the penal planet Botany had fought a grim and dangerous war to free themselves from their Eosi overlords. Now the Eosi were gone, and both Botany and Earth were free again - free, but in serious trouble as the theft of all their communications satellites by the Catteni (working for their Eosi masters) had left them isolated and in a desperate situation.
Hoping that everything stolen from them would be returned, they found that Catteni greed had triumphed. The merchants of Barevi refused to give up the stolen goods unless a substantial ransom was paid.
Earth was in a particularly bad way: disease, vandalism, starvation and the breakdown of their mechanical world had left its people fighting for survival. They desperately needed the goods the Barevi were hoarding. And so Zainal, Kris, and a courageous team from Botany set off to try and outwit the thieving merchants.
It was an expedition that led to a horrifying replay of an old nightmare for Kris - and only Zainal could save her and the future of both Earth and Botany.
'Anne McCaffrey, one of the queens of science fiction, knows exactly how to give her public what it wants' - THE TIMES
'I could not put the books down until I had read all four' -- ***** Reader review
'Very gripping' -- ***** Reader review
'Anne McCaffrey is a super-talent' -- ***** Reader review
'Impossible to put down' -- ***** Reader review
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The inhabitants of the penal planet Botany had fought a grim and dangerous war to free themselves from their Eosi overlords. Now the Eosi were gone, and both Botany and Earth were free again - free, but in serious trouble as the theft of all their communications satellites by the Catteni (working for their Eosi masters) had left them isolated and in a desperate situation.
Hoping that everything stolen from them would be returned, they found that Catteni greed had triumphed. The merchants of Barevi refused to give up the stolen goods unless a substantial ransom was paid.
Earth was in a particularly bad way: disease, vandalism, starvation and the breakdown of their mechanical world had left its people fighting for survival. They desperately needed the goods the Barevi were hoarding. And so Zainal, Kris, and a courageous team from Botany set off to try and outwit the thieving merchants.
It was an expedition that led to a horrifying replay of an old nightmare for Kris - and only Zainal could save her and the future of both Earth and Botany.
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13 reviews
Rebekah Summersby
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March 26, 2016
I love this series but it definitely feels like this book is a tack on much later supplying info on what happened after earth and botany were freed. But key facts were wrong in this book as though the writer forgot the details. Such as the Catteni do not grow facial hair and yet a burly stalker was described as bearded and Zainal remembered from his previous visits to Barevei that Rassi cleaned up rubbish but in a previous book it was stated that the Rassi never left their home planet of Catten.
Melissa Edwards
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January 20, 2020
Always enjoyable sci fi with interspecies romance that never dates.
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About the author
Anne McCaffrey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. A prolific bestselling author, she is best known for her handling of broad themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly in her tales of the Talents and the novels about the Dragonriders of Pern. Anne McCaffrey lives in a house of her own design, Dragonhold-Underhill, in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Visit the author's website at www.annemccaffrey.net
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