![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Good thing I’m not as helpless as I look. Kidnappers, slavers, pirates and yakuza - no matter where I go, trouble always seems to find me. Hoping to survive all the awful things that can happen to a girl on her own in space. Now I’m on the run, hoping against hope that the Matrons won’t try too hard to find me. What would they do, if they realized the Adjustments that were supposed to make me a meek little herd animal didn’t do anything? Then I messed up, and gave myself away. Even as a kid I knew not to trust the Matrons. Most Recommended Books presents the E William Brown series written by E William Brown. I learned fast to downplay my abilities, keep my mouth shut and try to blend in. William Brown LibraryThing Perilous Waif (Alice Long) by E. There were other kids with mods at the orphanage, but nothing like that. It all seemed perfectly natural at the time. Forty meters off the ground, watching ships thirty thousand kilometers overhead, with senses that could pick out radar pings and comm chatter as easily as the ships themselves. ![]() When I was little I used to climb up to the highest branches of the housetree at night, and watch the starships docking at the orbital stations high above. Then out of that comes a story about a person. This is a book in which the scene/setting is carefully considered, the technology, its impacts, and the shape of society as a result are carefully considered. My name is Alice Long, and I’ve always known I was different. Perilous Waif is different, the Author is different and if you want to understand why read the essays at the back. ![]()
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