Ten Low - Stark Holborn Audiobook

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  alnilam
  October 3rd, 2021
  

  To the attention of site admin/mod/maintainer: I just noticed that after edit the keywords were not properly updated in the actual post.

  Keywords before update:
  Adventure, Dystopia, Survival

  Keywords after update:
  Action, Adventure, Dystopia, Military, Survival

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  alnilam
  October 4th, 2021
  

  The above seems to be a non-issue, the site eventually updated the post properly (or maybe it was my web browser cache playing tricks, when testing I refreshed the page but still).

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• 
  wuuk
  October 5th, 2021
  

  

  Thank you alnilam for sharing this book!

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  alnilam
  October 7th, 2021
  

  Brief overview of the star system, where the evens occur:

  (i) The central unnamed star (referred to as ’sun’)

  (ii) Prosper, Jericho, not sure about Delos? (obscure references make it difficult to grasp what it is, exactly, only that it’s habitable and populated), some other unnamed planets (referred to as ’some other inner-system enclaves’

  (iii) Brovos, the last planet in the star system (referred to as ‘pinkish-red’, it’s habitable and populated: ‘farmers from Brovos’ etc)

  (iv) Factus, the moon of Brovos (referred to as ‘Brovos’s outer moon of Factus’), the gravity on Factus is unknown, and it’s atmosphere is low on oxygen

  (v) Delos, likely another moon of Brovos, orbiting closer to it, habitable and populated

  (vi) Void (referred to as ‘an unfathomable web of dark matter’ — and there’s also a mysterious area on Factus called ‘Void’, where some events occur?)

  What puzzles me, in particular: in order for a moon to hold an atmosphere and be suitable for life, its size-mass should be roughly somewhere between the size-mass of Mars and Earth. However, usually moons of that size and mass are satellites, orbiting massive, considerably larger and heavier gas giants, and not habitable planets like Brovos — i.e. Brovos’s and Factus’s size-mass and gravity should be comparable — which in turn makes the proposed arrangement ‘planet and its moons’ somewhat problematic.

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• 
  alnilam
  October 7th, 2021
  

  Some related fragments of text:

  * I follow his gaze up towards Brovos, pinkish-red and just visible in the sky. The last planet in the system, and beyond its orbit, nothing but the Void.

  * …something tells me he is not her father. A bodyguard, then? A kidnapper? Whoever they are, they aren’t new settlers, or farmers from Brovos.

  * As the hours pass, Brovos crosses the sky above us, like a huge eye rolled to the bloodshot white.

  * My family were on one of the ships heading for Brovos.

  * Other people said she had been born on one of the original supply haulers, during their first long trip to Brovos and the border moons.

  * News from the cruise: cow-quarantines on Brovos, tech warehouse strikes on Jericho and nickel tycoon Lutho Xoon has been appointed First Premier of oh-so-glamorous Delos.

  * And since the bovine flu killed off half the cattle on Brovos, fertiliser is big business.

  * In those days, the central planets were nothing to us but lights in the sky. We would pick them out and recite what we knew, gleaned from bulletins and the occasional advertisement. The faint shimmering blue light was Prosper, Adán would say, where no one touched the ground or knew anyone else’s name. I would reply by pointing to the darkness and telling him of far-distant Brovos at the very edge of the known system, where strange fungi covered the ground and there were twenty animals to every person and the cows were bred as big as elephants. We would thrill each other with talk of seedy, bustling Jericho, where whole cities existed between warehouse walls, even the distant whispers of the border moons, promising land and freedom.

  * I sit in the co-pilot’s seat and watch: the gathering dark, the marbled pink of Brovos in the sky, the rainbow shimmer of Delos, the many winking lights of orbiting ships. And beyond the lights… nothing. Just the Void, an unfathomable web of dark matter.

  * The cargoes themselves come from all over; meat and dairy from Brovos, oil from the great floating belch of the Delos refineries, scrap from Tin Town, airtights and water from Prosper…

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• 
  jpaulcoleman
  October 8th, 2021
  

  I’m going to have to stop reading the comments. And read the book instead!

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  ladyamest2
  November 13th, 2024
  

  

  Thank you!!

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• 
  NantanLupan
  November 13th, 2024
  

  

  Thank you!!!

  Ten Low - Stark Holborn

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