The Unincorporated Future
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4.2 • 33 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
With their "talent for epic storytelling" (The Sunday Denver Post), Prometheus Award-winning authors Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin conclude their thought-provoking science fiction saga with The Unincorporated Future.
Sandra O'Toole is the president of the Outer Alliance, which stretches from the asteroid belt to the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto. Resurrected following the death of Justin Cord, the unincorporated man, O'Toole has become a powerful political figure and a Machiavellian leader determined to win the Civil War against the inner planets at almost any cost. And the war has been going badly, in part because of the great General Trang, a fit opponent for the brilliant J. D. Black.
Choices have to be made to abandon some of the moral principles upon which the revolution was founded. It is a time of great heroism and great betrayal, madness, sacrifice, and shocking military conflict. Nothing is predictable, even the behavior of artificial intelligences. There may be only one way out, but it is not surrender.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Smooth, thoughtful, and compulsively readable, this expansive space opera completes the quartet that began with The Unincorporated Man (2009). The solar system's Outer Alliance is beginning to win its fight against the inner planets' United Human Federation, but unscrupulous UHF President Hektor Sambianco remains determined to exterminate the opponents of personal incorporation, which ensures that "every human was under corporate control and properly exploited." As millions of people die on both sides, Alliance President Sandra O'Toole must consider how far a war can go before it destroys the combatants' humanity. Meanwhile, massive battle fleets maneuver through the solar system, and clandestine artificial intelligences fight their own civil war, determining whether to aid or destroy the human race. Plots and counterplots abound. The Kollin brothers bounce deftly among characters and locations, alternating grandiose action and pages of political and moral debate. The result is a surprisingly successful melodrama of ideas that ties up the plot threads neatly and satisfyingly.
