Komenagen: Slog

What separates boys from men? How can you prove you are worthy of rights and respect of adulthood?

Skaffington White is a sixteen-year-old nobody in New Philly as far as the rest of his high school class-mates are concerned. Bright and honest enough to be a discipline problem at school, under-appreciated by his accountant father and mousy mother, he was just putting in seat-time at school until he could graduate. At least until a drug raid gone wrong left him an orphan with three younger siblings. None of his extended family was willing to take in what the government described as an entirely too independent problem child... . How could he get a new start in life that didn't go through Enlightenment Foster Care Facility Number Four, with level two treatment? Could a wilderness trek for the pitiless Plateans offer a way out, or will it lead only to a cold, lonely death on a barely terraformed planet? How much worse can the wild of a new world be than the impersonal bureaucracy of "civilization"?
Every great character has a back-story. Here is how one of the characters central to the award-nominated novel "The Stars Came Back" got his career started.


Genre: Science Fiction