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FAR FREEDOM

by A. Warren Merkey

Introduction

Far Freedom is set in the 20th and 27th centuries. It is told in three books: Keshona, Cryptikon, and The Lady in the Mirror.

The story is sentimental, emotional, musical, and sometimes humorous. While it is not "hard" sf, it attempts to avoid common scientific mistakes while offering what may be something new in starship theory. The story has a dominant military element but would not be called military sf. Far Freedom is over 300,000 words in length. Most of the action takes place in the span of a single year. It has a multitude of characters of which women are more prominent than men. Two of the three main characters are women.

This is a major revision of the story and has yet to be edited and chapterized in html. It is presented here in a single html file. It will be hard to get back to where you stopped unless you make a note and use your browser's search function. There are also e-book readers that can process html files.

Content: Children are harmed in the story and there are other scenes of violence. The only curse words used are such as hell and damn. There is no explicit sex but a few scenes are suggestive.

Copyright: This story is free to the public for any noncommercial or educational use. Any other use requires a legal document of permission from the author.

Synopsis

Admiral Fidelity Demba has lived three previous lifetimes. Memories of those lives and of her family are hidden from her to protect a plan set in motion more than two centuries ago. If she doesn't remember soon, she'll lose her chance to find her family, yet the return of those memories may all but destroy her current personality and leave her helpless before her enemies.

Demba will steal a ship from the Navy and put the ten thousand people aboard in harm's way in an effort to find four lost men. It seems not only hopeless but if it succeeds she will have found men who are dangerous strangers. What Demba doesn't foresee is that she will alter human history and bring galactic civilization to the brink of collapse.

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