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    Soarer's Choice
    Soarer's Choice
    Soarer's Choice
    Audiobook23 hours

    Soarer's Choice

    Written by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

    Narrated by Kyle McCarley

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    The civilization of the Alectors, which has farmed and developed all life on Corus to produce sustaining life force for their vampiric civilization, must move wholesale from one planet to another every few thousand years as it exhausts the life force of another world.

    This time, two worlds have been prepared, and the time is at hand for the great move. And Corus is the loser, to be abandoned by the civilizing forces of the government of Alectors but used as a dumping ground for malcontents and others who don't make the cut to move on to a richer new world. This neither bodes well for the future of human civilization nor for the honest Alectors such as Dainyl, who is trying to hold everything together as all systems are failing. But the mysterious Ancients, the Soarers, are a force to be reckoned with, and they may hold a powerful and destructive trump card.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 14, 2015
    ISBN9781494578268
    Soarer's Choice
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    L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot, a director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant and staff director for a U.S. Congressman, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.

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    • 4/5
      In best "Star Wars" tradition, this sixth book of the series is, of course, actually chronologically book 3. The intertwined stories of Dainyl and Mykel continue through the increasing chaos of the decay of the Alector civilisation on Corea, fuelled by the death-throes of Ifra. Once again, a well written and entertaining book by Modesitt, if not as thought provoking as, for example, "The Ethos Effect". A degree of action, some subtlety in Dainyl's side of the story and some surprises in the denouement. Enjoyable fantasy rather than deep philosophy, really, but more than enough to make you think about people and the choices they are forced to.Minor Spoiler - yes, as we all knew, Mykel gets the girl. I am actually struggling to remember a Modesitt series where the hero doesn't get the girl (or boy) in the end - even "The Eternity Artifact" manages it.
    • 5/5
      Worthy end to the second trilogy. A civilization disappears, that much is known from the first trilogy. What I liked is how Modesitt shaped the end of the Ifrits. So much effort is expended: how much will prove to be futile? Will all civilization collapse? Will order remain? Etc. Nicely done.