The Book of Skaith, Volume 1: The Ginger Star
Both The Ginger Star and The Long Tomorrow by the same author are on the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society Inc. Recommended Reading List for Mature Children and Young Adults.
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"Eric John Stark had begun fighting almost before he could stand. Born in a mining colony in Mercury's Twilight Belt, he had fought to live on a planet that did not encourage life; his parents were dead, his foster-parents a tribe of sub-human aboriginals clawing a precarious existence out of the sun-stricken valleys. He had fought, without success, the men who slaughtered those foster-parents and put him in a cage, a snarling curiosity. Later on, he had fought for a different kind of survival, the survival of himself as a man. "He would never have got past square one without Simon Ashton." And now Simon Ashton has disappeared on a distant, interdicted planet called Skaith, where zealots of an alien religion may be holding Ashton prisoner...if they haven't killed him already.Publishers Weekly"Imaginatively, Brackett is absolutely at the top of her genre, filling this book as full of marvels, personalities, strange customs, and hair-raising escapes as a Christmas pudding is full of plums. Of its kind, it's just delicious."
\ Publishers Weekly"Imaginatively, Brackett is absolutely at the top of her genre, filling this book as full of marvels, personalities, strange customs, and hair-raising escapes as a Christmas pudding is full of plums. Of its kind, it's just delicious."\ \
