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No Man's Land: Volume 1
No Man's Land: Volume 1 by Sarah A. Hoyt
The first of three volumes. This is not a trilogy of separate stories, but dictated by the limits of modern-day technology.
It gets the story well started, with our two heroes, interweaving two threads.
Skip -- Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Kayel Hayden, Viscount Webson -- survives and battles heroically in space combat where his father dies, and then quits the armed forces to run wild. And later become a diplomat.
Eerlen comes running through the castle because his sworn, the king, has died, his sireling, Brundar, is the king's rightful heir but still a child, and court politics are -- rough. Especially when they learn the king did not die in battle but by murder. And the set-up of this world of hermaphrodites gets revealed bit by bit.
It involves a shelter in deep ice, Skip recognizing someone in an unexpected place, falling out a window onto grass, a lot of baking, hunting, and more.
The first of three volumes. This is not a trilogy of separate stories, but dictated by the limits of modern-day technology.
It gets the story well started, with our two heroes, interweaving two threads.
Skip -- Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Kayel Hayden, Viscount Webson -- survives and battles heroically in space combat where his father dies, and then quits the armed forces to run wild. And later become a diplomat.
Eerlen comes running through the castle because his sworn, the king, has died, his sireling, Brundar, is the king's rightful heir but still a child, and court politics are -- rough. Especially when they learn the king did not die in battle but by murder. And the set-up of this world of hermaphrodites gets revealed bit by bit.
It involves a shelter in deep ice, Skip recognizing someone in an unexpected place, falling out a window onto grass, a lot of baking, hunting, and more.