Freedom's Landing (Freedom Series)

Courageous and resourceful, she manages a single-woman escape from the Catteni and is living in the wilds of the planet when she comes to the aid of a Catteni soldier pursued by his own ranks. It's the dawning of a new age for mankind when the Catteni descend to Earth and easily overcome the Earth's population. Recaptured together, they join forces with other slaves to outwit their captors and a hostile planetary environment.Listeners will delight in this "against-the-odds" story of survival, ingenuity and romance. Thousands are herded onto slave ships headed for the intergalactic auction block.Kris Bjornsen is captured in Denver on her way to her college classes and wakes up on the primitive planet Barevi. As her audience has come to expect of McCaffrey, she delivers a rich and intricate science fiction adventure in Freedom's Landing, sure to win over even more listeners and add to her legions of fans.

"It seemed like she should be more wary" according to jujube. I believe this book was first published in 1995. Reading it, I was reminded at various times of James Dashner's Maze Runner, TV's "The Dome" and Lindsay Buroker's Fallen Empire Series. It was interesting and held my attention. A few minor negatives (1) The things Kris said were sometimes hokey/dated. (2) I couldn't quite fathom why Kris was so loyal to Zainal so quickly, . Amazon Customer said This has been a favorite for many years. This has been a favorite for many years, a unique amazing perspective which combines the concept of alien invasion, survival skills, and integration with other lifeforms (we could learn a lot!). I couldn't get into the Pern series, but Anne McCaffrey is a spectacular storyteller, a beautiful writer and worldbuilder. This book put me on the path for my own career and I hav. Craig S. Werner said A Typically Great Work from Anne McCaffrey. A typically great work from Anne McCaffrey.Although she is known primarily for her stories of the mythical world of Pern with the life there of interaction between flying dragons and humans, she writes other stories of science fiction and fantasy as well. This is one of those stories and to me, it fits both genres.This is the first of a series and I see it having the pote

. In sturdy Robinson Crusoe fashion, the survivors overcome the odds against them, rescue other castaways and find signs of a mysterious civilization that is using Freedom as a giant mechanized farm. When she tries to return him to the capital city, she is caught in a roundup of troublemakers designated for colonization duty. They also deal with the few bad apples in their midst. From Publishers Weekly With a tale of human and other slaves abandoned by harsh masters on an ostensibly deserted planet, McCaffrey begins another highly readable series about successful survival in difficult circumstances. Meanwhile love blossoms between Zainal and Kristin, to the displeasure of some of the other humans. McCaffrey has created another set of winning protagonists and a carefully detailed, exotic background on which to develop a new series. Kristin Bjornsen, an escaped human slave on the planet Barevi, saves one of the Catteni maste