Scaling The Rim eBook Dorothy Grant
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Never underestimate the power of a competent tech.
When Annika Danilova arrived at the edge of the colony's crater to install a weather station, she knew the mission had been sabotaged from the start. The powers that be sent the wrong people, underequipped, and antagonized their supporting sometimes-allies. The mission was already slated for unmarked graves and an excuse for war...
But they hadn't counted on Annika allying with the support staff, or the sheer determination of their leader, Captain Restin, to accomplish the mission. Together, they will overcome killing weather above and traitors within to fight for the control of the planet itself!
Scaling The Rim eBook Dorothy Grant
Scaling the Rim is a great read. It's a short novel (or long novella, depending on where you make the cut) that follows a young woman's adventure on a planet far from here... I don't want to give away too much, because it's well worth the read. This is a planetary romance of the old school, with less love story between a man and a woman (although there is that) than it is love of a land, of a wild place that will kill you if you stop fighting, but it's home. The characters will come alive for you, as they did for me, and you'll join me in asking the author for more. Friendships, thrilling cold that speaks to me as someone who knows what that feels like... it's good.Product details
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Scaling The Rim eBook Dorothy Grant Reviews
This book was an engrossing read with surprising growth in a young woman overcoming physical challenges and bureaucratic inertia hiding the steps to make her colony world more habitable.
The descriptions of the extreme cold weather and the impact of that on the exploration mission is well written and fully realized without dragging the plot development.
The personsal conflict between the"Rus" and the "Federsky" is made apparent as the story progresses, but I had trouble identifying if it was a cultural difference only, or an inter-species prejudice. The lack of clarity on this issue periodically distracted me from staying in the plot.
Overall worth the read, but notperfect for me.
This is Dorothy Grant's first book. (She's the charming wife of Peter Grant - if you're reading this, go check out all his books. After purchasing this one, of course.) Set on a frozen world far away, centuries after colonization, a group of scientists and technicians set out to install a weather station on the rim of the crater everyone lives in. You see, the crater is deep enough to keep in some heat on their otherwise frozen world after the terraforming project failed, and the project was abandoned by Earth. These plucky if inexperienced humans must accomplish their goal with the dubious aid of the Rus, human-wolf hybrid creatures bred to withstand the brutally cold conditions close to the rim, far away from Central and human civilization.
Of course, the politicians who run Central have been known to lie and scheme from time to time. Not that anyone would ever dare to openly mention that, of course. And there could not possibly be any ulterior motives or competing agendas in the team they send out to accomplish a dangerous mission. And the Rus may have their own ideas about the project, and don't trust the humans any more than the humans trust them.
I especially like the protagonist, who is a remarkably small young woman. She's talented and plucky, because if she wasn't, she'd probably be dead already. She's got more than enough grit and determination to make up for her physical frailty, while still being feminine. I'd like to meet her and buy her a cup of good coffee, not the horrible stuff the Rus seem to prefer. The descriptions of the killing cold are from an author who used to live and work in Alaska as a bush pilot. It's refreshingly brisk.
Set in a place sitting on the ragged edge of disaster, where control is more important than truth, a team heads out into the wilderness to set up a weather station. Disaster and betrayal await, but so do unexpected allies and resources. Reading the story I got echos of "To Build a Fire", the author life in Alaska is evident in her descriptions of the Rim.
Quite a first effort, I'm looking forward to her next effort and (impatiently) for her first collaboration with her husband, Peter Grant.
I really hope Dorothy Grant is writing the sequel!
A colony on a world so cold it teeters on the brink of freezing CO2 out of the air. Life is only possible down in the depths of huge craters, where a mixed population of normal humans and the genetically engineered Rus live an uneasy truce. The ancestors' terraforming failed, the colony ship deorbited generations ago. A human science team has permission to travel with a Rus escort to the Gap to emplace a weather station that will give advanced warning of the brutally cold weather fronts.
But is that the whole purpose? Is the human government in Control using the dangerous mission to get ride of people who know too much? And do any of the humans have anything else planned?
This is fairly obviously the beginning of a series, and it's a good start. There are a few sub-plots, but they all weave together nearly seamlessly.
The basics a world with a failed terraforming program. And a resulting major ice age. Baseline humans, and gene-modded humans, which are now at odds. And a joint mission to put some automated weather stations where they will do some good. Throw in some intrigue, and a genuinely dangerous mission. All in all, a good evening's read. I'll be waiting for her next book....
An outstanding blend of adventure, science fiction and romance. The romance is pleasantly understated, never dominant, and fits in well with the adventure. Both take place in the context of a science fiction colony on a distant planet, struggling to survive as different groups of colonists compete with one another for influence and dominance. The interplay between individuals is a microcosm of the conflicting interests of their groups, and plays out with rising tension as the planet's weather becomes the enemy of them all.
An excellent debut novella. I look forward to many more.
Scaling the Rim is a great read. It's a short novel (or long novella, depending on where you make the cut) that follows a young woman's adventure on a planet far from here... I don't want to give away too much, because it's well worth the read. This is a planetary romance of the old school, with less love story between a man and a woman (although there is that) than it is love of a land, of a wild place that will kill you if you stop fighting, but it's home. The characters will come alive for you, as they did for me, and you'll join me in asking the author for more. Friendships, thrilling cold that speaks to me as someone who knows what that feels like... it's good.
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