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Chargement... The Orpheus Plotpar Christopher Swiedler
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"The Navy has never accepted a Belter cadet before, but Lucas' skills secure him a place on the training ship, the Orpheus. Life in the Navy couldn't be more different than life in the Belt, and Lucas struggles to find his place. As a Belter, he's an outsider among his peers ... Lucas is caught between the worlds of his past and his future when a Belter rebellion puts everyone's lives at risk"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Lucas has spent his whole life in space. His father is an asteroid miner and Lucas has been in free fall more than any measure of gravity. His adopted sister, Tali, was born on Mars. Based on that fact, she was accepted into the Navy cadet training. Lucas also wants to join the Navy but a Belter (i.e. a citizen who was born in the asteroid belt) has never been accepted into training. Then, a prospective cadet gets ill on the way to the training ship, the Orpheus, and they have an opening for someone nearby. Lucas is asked to join; reluctantly, his father gives his permission. As the sole Belter in training (no-one knows Tali is his sister as they have different last names and she has never disclosed she grew up in the Belt) Lucas experiences hostility from some of the other cadets. Luckily, his two bunk mates, Rahul and Elena, seem disposed to be friendly. Lucas finds some aspects of the training extremely difficult but other things are for skills that he is already proficient at. He is trying to fit in but then he sees Tali plant something on the hull of the Orpheus. When he goes outside to find out what it is, accompanied by Rahul and Elena, the ship suddenly starts acceleration and they are almost lost in space. In the confusion he loses the item so he's not sure what it was supposed to do but he suspects Tali is in trouble. And soon he finds out that Tali is obligated to some people who are wanting to start a revolution against the Navy. Through good ideas and some good luck Lucas is able to impress most of the other cadets. This helps when all the cadets have to cooperate in order to free themselves from the revolutionaries.
I read most (possibly all) of Robert Heinlein's juveniles when I was young and this book reminded me a lot of them. I'm not sure if Heinlein had "Big Ideas" about those books but they did make an impact on me. I'm happy to see there are still writers to carry on that tradition. ( )