"outer space fairy tale"
He was a visionary who saw that the Republic, of which earth
was a member, was about to devolve into civil war; Andre
built a colony in the Lucifer system called Belarus. It
was comprised of colonists of Slavic descent, one very much
like Russia and the other republics of the former Soviet
Union. When civil war came, Belarus was easily able to
repel the invaders but that was not the worst of their
problems. The planet was inhabited long before the
colonists arrived by those who came to be known as the
Enemy. The Enemy was determined to destroy the colonists but
biotoxins that Andre released kept the Enemy from
destroying his home. Still civilization was set back to
Tsarist Russia and when the new Union came to bring back
Belarus into the fold, the world would not adhere to the
union's new Bill of Rights. Women with birth defects
caused by the biotoxins were forced to wear shrouds on
their face and had no rights. Yet one of these female
lowlifes, the niece of the Tsar, tries to save her people
and in doing so, that of the Enemy. ENEMIES is an enjoyable and richly entertaining work that
combines Tsarist Russia and chemical warfare in an outer
space fairy tale. The contrast of the modern technology
that the Union Star Men have and the medieval life of the
people living on Belarus makes for natural conflict. The
heroine should be bitter because of the restrictive
prejudicial laws that apply to her disfigurement but
instead she is an independent thinker who does her best to
save society. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted March 5, 2003
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