Published: Feb. 11, 2012
Words: 89,644 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465844590

Short description

Wally heads out to rescue his girlfriend, Vickie, and Keira to rescue her career -- across the parsecs to primitive Lovejoy's World. They'll soon be sorry. The planet's backward economy is supported by a prison regime like that of czarist Siberia, and every citizen carries arms. Our two fledglings will be lucky to come back in one piece… Especially after the ponies get through with them.

Extended description

Two naive Terrans of opposite sexes, accidental and unwilling acquaintances, each spend their life savings on a journey to a primitive criminal-ridden planet, pursuing different but equally unlikely dreams. These two innocents, these babes in the wood, these pathetically hapless greenhorns are in for the biggest shocks of their lives.

Escorted by an alcoholic local, Keira and Wally backpack their way across an inhospitable stretch of territory from the landing site to the planet’s second city. They make it almost halfway before losing their guide, being attacked by bandits, and stumbling into a pack of dangerous local wildlife.

Then the trouble really starts. Hitherto antagonistic, under pressure of danger they begin to feel attraction for one another.

This, of course, can only lead to worse problems.

Tags

danger, space travel, attraction, primitive, wild animals, war between the sexes

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Review by: Lynn Clayton on Aug. 27, 2012 :
Lovejoy's World is a sinister place, the approach to which is described by Dai Alanye in convincing detail. But from the beginning the tone is ominous. Here criminals are deported but who is the criminal and who the law-abiding? A world with few comforts and little to eat, one nevertheless feels the inhabitants will do anything for money.It's a joyless place, a frontier to the utterly unknown. At times it seems Wally and Kiera are out only contact with normality and clarity, the only ones we can trust.

Strange animals and insects abound - unicorns without horns; ponies which are in fact centaurs - human-eating half men with spears. This is no airy-fairy fantasy, however, but down-to-earth scariness. Lovejoy's World offers futuristic space travel back in time to a terrifying age which the reader hopes will never be. Thrilling and thought-provoking.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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