Flight of the Vanguard
(2014)(The fourth book in the Seedworlds series)
A novel by Phillip C Jennings
Planet Paeon was colonized three thousand years before, using a seeding process: firstlife, secondlife, thirdlife, and eventually animal-born humans. Human-born humans have yet to completely take over, though they dominate the cities.
Other seedships followed Seedship Anna Lepavic with new gifts from Earth, and Seedship Filome usurped control. Anna had made herself queen of Elfwine, enjoying successive bodies of flesh, and pushing her capital city toward industrialization. Filome displaced Anna and halted progress, terrified of a menace called the Singularity.
Seedship souls from the City of the Dead adhere to all sorts of beliefs. Seedship Zorya scorned Filome. Her Singularity was a boogieman. When Zorya displaced Filome, she hoped to experiment with the stuff of life. Paeon was to become a laboratory, not a museum preserving 'RenFest' humans and cultures.
A few years later Zorya was forced to industrialize the Canyonlands to deal with a threatening comet. She demolished it, but before that great day Seedship Soo arrived to cloud her triumph. Old Zorya was forced to lay bare her secrets. Now she lives a prisoner, with one manic servant, loathed by successors of the exiles of Elfwine. She'd planned a fine future, and this is not it. Soo credits Zorya for saving millions of lives, and tries to hope she's not a villain.
Readers met the Poggen family, including Thedrow, in the book Elfwine. Lovers Aldus and Rasmo had many adventures, and Rasmo is worse for wear. For now, though, they're riding high.
Madam Gostivar is Anna Lepavic, enjoying retirement in a new body.
Ape-born Shakespeare comes into his own in this story, as does Fifa. They'll re-introduce themselves. Read Elfwine to find out more about Benefice and Edesso.
Genre: Science Fiction
Other seedships followed Seedship Anna Lepavic with new gifts from Earth, and Seedship Filome usurped control. Anna had made herself queen of Elfwine, enjoying successive bodies of flesh, and pushing her capital city toward industrialization. Filome displaced Anna and halted progress, terrified of a menace called the Singularity.
Seedship souls from the City of the Dead adhere to all sorts of beliefs. Seedship Zorya scorned Filome. Her Singularity was a boogieman. When Zorya displaced Filome, she hoped to experiment with the stuff of life. Paeon was to become a laboratory, not a museum preserving 'RenFest' humans and cultures.
A few years later Zorya was forced to industrialize the Canyonlands to deal with a threatening comet. She demolished it, but before that great day Seedship Soo arrived to cloud her triumph. Old Zorya was forced to lay bare her secrets. Now she lives a prisoner, with one manic servant, loathed by successors of the exiles of Elfwine. She'd planned a fine future, and this is not it. Soo credits Zorya for saving millions of lives, and tries to hope she's not a villain.
Readers met the Poggen family, including Thedrow, in the book Elfwine. Lovers Aldus and Rasmo had many adventures, and Rasmo is worse for wear. For now, though, they're riding high.
Madam Gostivar is Anna Lepavic, enjoying retirement in a new body.
Ape-born Shakespeare comes into his own in this story, as does Fifa. They'll re-introduce themselves. Read Elfwine to find out more about Benefice and Edesso.
Genre: Science Fiction
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