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by: Michael Z. Williamson
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780743471794
ISBN: 0743471792
Label: Baen
Manufacturer: Baen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 688
Publication Date: January 01, 2004
Publisher: Baen
Sales Rank: 204500
Studio: Baen
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The Innocent Run When Everyone Pursueth! A Fast-Paced Novel of an Indomitable Individual Against a Monolithic Tyranny
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Rating:  - Two Cultural Viewpoints
Freehold (2004) is the first SF novel in the Freehold universe. It is set several centuries in the future in an era of interstellar colonization. Freehold on Grainne has declared its independence, but the UN is unwilling to let it go. The very existence of an autonomous star nation is a threat to their hegemony.
In this novel, Sergeant Second Class Kendra Pacelli, UN Peace Force, has returned from her temporary deployment to Mtali and is finishing up the paperwork. She is a logistic ... Read More
Rating: - A Vision of the Possible
I read lots of books and remember few of them. Freehold is a book I have thought about nearly every day over the past two years. Michael Williamson shows us a society that has not traded their liberty for a little security and the promises of politicians.
The book blew me away, not the plot or action - which wasn't bad, but for the vision. It also shamed me. I swore to protect and uphold the Constitution when I enlisted, and I failed. We really aren't free people any longer. I would ... Read More
Rating:  - not a masterpiece
The book is an easy read, but not great. If you liked the movie Red Dawn, you'd like this book. The good guys are good, the bad guys are incompetent and bad. There is very little character development despite the length of the book, mostly its just action, unrealistic action, but action. The good guys can stand in the middle of nuclear blast and come out with a flesh wound, the good guys can hit the enemy by firing into the air. I'll finish the book, but most likely won't read others by the same author.
Rating: - Freehold rocks!!! Read the book, now I want to move there!
I read Michael Z. Williamson's The Weapon before I read Freehold. Both take place in the same time and world with some of the same characters but Freehold was published before The Weapon. The Weapon isn't what I'd consider a direct sequel so reading the newer novel first didn't ruin reading Freehold for me. Both these novels are incredible and I haven't enjoyed any sci-fi novels this much in the last 10 years. This guy writes sci-fi like the masters I grew up reading and devouring every new novel they'd come ... Read More
Rating:  - Problems, and yet...
This book is rife with issues that make the writing feel amateurish. You can tell that the author, Mike Williamson, is obviously an intelligent individual with many interesting ideas. Yet he writes in a disorganized fashion, starting us down little side trails of plot and never going anywhere with them. His character development isn't the best, only the main character felt "real" to me. Plus, the book's a bit preachy, although he tries to weave it into the story.
And yet...it is a pretty easy ... Read More
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