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The Tenth Class
by Karen Ripley
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Del Rey (1990-12-15)
ISBN: 0345370333
EAN: 9780345370334
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Mass Market Paperback: 300 pages
Release Date: 1990-12-15
SKU: 3394
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: Very Good.
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The background and the beginning
Rating  (3)
Date: 1999-05-14
Some references in the text let me think that this novel is a sequel and that the background has already been described in a previous one that I did not read. Notwithstanding it, the background is : after an atomic war, the survivors of humanity, having conquered the stars and colonised many planets, have been affected by many mutations. The new political system is made of two Autorities, the Civil Authority and the Military Authority, and people are parted in some classes, more or less affected by the mutations, the most usual being class 4 and class 5. Class 1 ("pure" humans) has disappeared. At the other end of the scale, there is a semi-mythical class 10 of which the members should be human vegetables. The heroine, Jo-Tac, captain of a merchant vessel has, in the previous episods, been charged by the MA to transport a member of this class 10, Lewis, and has then discovered that "renegades" of both autorities organise clandestine biological research on the survivors of some slaughter : not being as one believe "living vegetables", "class 10" are gifted by various psi talents. E.g., Lewis is able to cure illnesses and wounds. After different incidents, Jo-Tac and Lewis have fled the research center of Camelot, which has been distroyed in the struggle beetween Auithorities and renegades. In this novel, Jo-Tac is on Porto Flora, to ask for the Intervention of an Ombudsman, liaison officer beetween independant merchants and Autorities. She undzerstands that "renegades" are again trying to prepare the destruction of the remaining "class 10", and flees again from Porto Flora to look for Lewis, and entertain saving the other "class 10" and destroying the renegades.Much action, but a happy ending.. Even if I cannot imagine a galactic empire in which humans would be the only sentient species, the background is well done and the novel agreeable to read. Georges Bormand, 48 ans, Vanves, France
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