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Exile to the Stars

Dale B. Mattheis (2002)

SubgenreSpace Opera
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
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Forced into a duel by the guy that got your girlfriend, nearly killed by a gang, kicked out of your job, then caught in an earthquake when you try and get away for a little hike. It’s 2025 and things are not going well for Jeff Friedrick. Knocked unconscious by the earthquake, Jeff awakes high in an unfamiliar mountain range and unaware that he is no longer on Earth. What would you do? Deep snow where there was hardly any, no signs of an earthquake, short of food, and no idea which way to go. Just getting out of the mountains nearly kills him, and nothing makes sense on the hike out. Then one clear night two moons rise over the forest. Jeff will remember that night as one of the worst in his life. This is the story of a twenty-first century man, an anthropologist, challenged to survive the elements and a radically different society. Aketti is a barbaric world where you have to back up words with action or pay the price. Jeff is very good with a saber, but that might not be enough. People who are not what they seem, animals who are much more than that, war, discovery, and a state of love that Jeff had given up ever finding—all intermix in a fast-paced adventure that spans two worlds.