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Fortune's Rising

por Sara King

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Series: Outer Bounds (1)

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Under the supertech Coalition government, Fortune's colonists are enslaved to harvest the highly valuable brain-enhancing drug Yolk, often losing their sanity and lives in the process. The population is dying off and the planet is becoming a police state whose only purpose is to harvest Yolk. But a revolution is in the air, fueled by an unlikely band of rebels: Anna Landborn, a brilliant, sociopathic child, and her quiet, lethally gifted sister, Magali; Runaway Joel, a virtuous military pilot turned tormented smuggler; Milar Whitecliff, a tattooed, chess-playing fugitive full of hatred and heart; Doberman, a simple robot in the throes of a startling transformation; and Tatiana Eyre, a captured Coalition soldier torn between loyalty and love. As their paths and fates collide, the battle to spark a full-scale uprising is violently challenged by the Nephyrs, the government's elite army of sadistic, near-indestructible cyborgs. But the prophecies of a mad soothsayer have foretold the coming of a hero destined to turn the tide--and the fight for freedom is just beginning. Revised edition: Previously published as Outer Bounds: Fortune's Rising, this edition of Fortune's Rising includes editorial revisions.… (más)
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I was really caught off-guard by this book - was not really expecting much from it, but I really enjoyed it. Some of the other reviewers had a problem with the amount of brutality in it, calling it Torture Porn, but I appreciated the reminders that this was a brutal planet, controlled by brutal people. Definitely not a YA book.
I see that the author is having some legal disputes with the publisher and that the sequel is stalled. That's a pity because I'm very interested in diving back into this story again.
Audiobook notes: Reading the author's account of the history of this book, I got the impression that the book was nearly self-published. However, the audio production was outstanding - I listen to a lot of audiobooks, and this one was very good, from the actual sound quality to the quality of the reader (Allyson Johnson) - she did a great job with the different voices. ( )
  KrakenTamer | Oct 23, 2021 |
Started slow, got better in the middle, got less good at the end. But I'm curious enough to possibly pick up the next one.

It does have some pretty graphic and sadistic violence and surgical scenes. I actually skipped the worst of it, skimmed over the rest. It didn't seem gratuitous, exactly, because it does depict exactly how either evil or amoral the characters are; but less would have been enough. I would not recommend this book for people who have no tolerance for that.

The sociopathic genius little kid is interesting, but almost completely unbelievable to me *as* a little kid. In the first scene, where Mag and her little sister Anna are introduced and Anna says she's 8 years old, I assumed from the context that this was 8 colonial years, on some planet that took 2-3 terran years to circle its sun. I was shocked when it became clear that, no, really, this is supposed to be a little kid.

I also found some of the characters' decisions to be rather unbelievably abrupt. And there are a couple other things that twang at my suspension of disbelief.

But it's hard to find real, actual SF these days, and this does qualify. (Although there had better be a believable mechanism for the vegetable-carving idiot savant seer, and Magala's unbelievable ability with weapons. I suppose it's the Yolk that's ultimately responsible, but hopefully with enough explanation to be more than the SF equivalent of magic deus ex machina. ( )
  VictoriaGaile | Oct 16, 2021 |
Scalpel-wielding sociopathic children? Sure, why not!
Took me 16 days to read roughly 60% of Pandora's Star (massive space opera) before I have up. 60% equals about 210k words. Sara's book is about 158k words and I finished that in 4 days. Tells me a little bit about what kind of books I like and how awesome this one was.

Lots of action, a fair bit of grit and an allround exciting story. Need more Sara King books now. ( )
  bored_panda | Jan 8, 2021 |
This was a fun sci-fi adventure about a planet called Fortune, where a larger governing body called the Coalition has enslaved the native people (aka the colonists) to raise terrifying slug-like creatures and harvest their eggs, the yolk of which being incredibly valuable due to its intelligence-boosting properties. Being the first book in a series, this story followed several interconnected characters, depicting their experiences on the planet as the population moved toward rebellion.

In the beginning of the book, the author listed some of her literary influences, one of the first being Joss Whedon, and the book definitely felt like it took place on one of the Rim worlds in the Firefly 'verse, which I liked. I could also see his influence in the witty dialogue, although I will admit that occasionally it felt like someone said something out of character just to surprise the reader or make a witty comment.

This book also featured an enemies-to-lovers subplot, which is a trope I typically don't like, though I was fine with it here due to the fact that there were some indications from very early on that the enemy was actually a good guy. The main problem that I had with it was that the romantic inclinations started a little too early on for my taste. The POV character was kidnapped and almost immediately starting thinking about how attractive her captors were. Regardless of who kidnapped me, I don't think I would be capable of seeing them as attractive, at least without taking some time either for them to earn my trust or for me to develop Stockholm Syndrome.

My other problems with the book were mostly small matters of wording--tiny pieces of out-of-character dialogue, word choice that I didn't agree with (like the repeated describing of one character's eyes as 'piss-brown,' which sounds like a very unhealthy color for piss to be), etc. There were also several editing errors (a word missing, the same word used twice in a sentence, someone being called the fourth something when he was only the third, etc.) but they weren't overwhelming and it was obvious that they were accidents and not the result of the author failing to understand some important element of grammar. Because this was a self-published book that thus lacked a professional editor, I think the occasional oversights were forgivable.

I would recommend this book to any fans of character-led science fiction, and I am excited to get my hands on the second book in the series. ( )
  NovelInsights | Sep 21, 2019 |
The author has described this book as a character novel, a sci-fi novel "about the people within their pages, not the tech." The book certainly is not focused on technology, but it doesn't do such a great job with the characters, and the story lacks anything of real interest.

A colony of people are oppressed and forced into servitude by the cyborg soldiers of the ruling Coalition. A group of rebels come together to challenge the Coalition. This plot line gets little attention while the reader is subjected to a constantly cruel, sociopathic 9 year old, relentless insult-laced sexual tension between characters and mindless cruelty, both real and threatened, from the Coalition against the colonists.

I never got into the storyline because it's buried behind the cruelty and sexual innuendo. On a positive note, the final 5 chapters contained a real semblance of a story, and there was the beginning of some true depth from two of the characters. However, after 48 chapters and 500+ pages, it felt like a hook to get the reader to dive into book 2, which I won't be doing ( )
  BlackAsh13 | Mar 6, 2018 |
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Sara Kingautor principaltodas las edicionescalculado
Johnson, AllysonNarradorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado
MacCarty, LanceIlustradorautor secundarioalgunas edicionesconfirmado

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Under the supertech Coalition government, Fortune's colonists are enslaved to harvest the highly valuable brain-enhancing drug Yolk, often losing their sanity and lives in the process. The population is dying off and the planet is becoming a police state whose only purpose is to harvest Yolk. But a revolution is in the air, fueled by an unlikely band of rebels: Anna Landborn, a brilliant, sociopathic child, and her quiet, lethally gifted sister, Magali; Runaway Joel, a virtuous military pilot turned tormented smuggler; Milar Whitecliff, a tattooed, chess-playing fugitive full of hatred and heart; Doberman, a simple robot in the throes of a startling transformation; and Tatiana Eyre, a captured Coalition soldier torn between loyalty and love. As their paths and fates collide, the battle to spark a full-scale uprising is violently challenged by the Nephyrs, the government's elite army of sadistic, near-indestructible cyborgs. But the prophecies of a mad soothsayer have foretold the coming of a hero destined to turn the tide--and the fight for freedom is just beginning. Revised edition: Previously published as Outer Bounds: Fortune's Rising, this edition of Fortune's Rising includes editorial revisions.

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