Decoy: The Franssisi Four Chronicles 1
About this ebook
This is NOT your classic SF tale with spaceships, laser battles and air locks. It takes place on one planet, and only that one, and there is time spent at the hunter/gatherer level of technology.
It's NOT Romance, although it involves plenty of explicit bed scenes and eventually, love between humans and aliens (someone called it polyamory, in fact).
It is EPIC in scope, if not in cast.
It takes the hero, Zell, from a fairly primitive life in the Wilderness to a stark prison cell where he is expected to demonstrate his prowess as a human male. It lays out how he first builds friendship and then an alliance that will not just change his life but also that of his alien friends. It chronicles their many adventures together.
This is a series that explores aspects of morality in many, many ways. What is acceptable, what works, what is categorically wrong? Lots of answers to that, in many different layers of society. Lots of cruelty and lots of caring, lots of heartache, and lots of daring...
Also what happens if people change their minds and defy tradition? What if people try out something new and go against long-held beliefs? Pushback happens, of course, even as something new arises, as beliefs and convictions and traditions change...
The tale begins here, with Decoy.
Best reading order:
Decoy
Captive
Fugitive
Catalyst
Fulcrum
Flux
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About the author
Joanna Steenen is a pen name for Hannah Steenbock.
Her books contain explicit bed scenes and topics that are less suited for a young audience - she likes to explore the steamy side of fantasy and science fiction.
Even so, you'll find that Joanna cares just as much about her characters as Hannah does and strives to give them moments of happiness, as well as satisfying endings. Her stories are usually full of hope.
Hannah Steenbock is a German writer of Speculative Fiction. She uses both her native German and English as languages for her tales, as she loves English and tends to think in that language when plotting Fantasy.
She prefers stories with satisfying endings and generally refrains from slaying her characters. That's why she likes to call her stories “feel-good fantasy”.
After finishing university with a degree in English and Spanish, Hannah lives and works in Kiel, the northernmost state capital of Germany. Her other pastimes include working as a therapist, strolling along beaches, talking with trees, and devouring as many stories as time allows.
Her book "Sequoia" won two awards in the Turning the Pages Book of the Year Awards, for Best Short Story Book of the Year 2013 and Best Folklore Book of the Year 2013.
Read more on her website: www.hannah-steenbock.de
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