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- Listening Length: 10 hours and 36 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Top Publications, Ltd.
- Audible Release Date: 25 Mar 2010
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003E6NX4C
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When a high-school student discovers his father is working with the CIA on a top secret project involving aliens from the planet Tarizon, the project is compromised, and Peter Turner must accept exile or be killed. When he arrives on Tarizon, much to his shock and dismay, he discovers his arrival has been highly anticipated as there is a prophecy that an Earthchild will come to Tarizon to lead a revolt against a tryrant who has enslaved many of the planet's lifeforms.
©2008 Top Publications, Ltd.; (P)2009 Top Publications, Ltd.
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Alien, alien abduction, and CIA plots, it is all here
29 Jan 2009
Format:Hardcover
The young adult science fiction audience will go for William Manchee's Tarizon: The Liberator, is the first book in his new trilogy.
This book has everything a sci-fi fan could want: an alien world, mutants, conflict and civil war, spaceships, super-technology and chapters full of action! There is even romance for young Peter.
The reader is pulled into the story, learning along with Peter the language, customs, food, technology and warfare practices of this alien culture. The vivid descriptions of the planet will feel as if readers are there assisting the earthling as he struggles with doing what he believes is morally right. There is a message here, which is oft repeated, a message of tolerance and hope.
Storyline is attention-grabbing, engaging and out of the ordinary. Settings are nicely detailed, reader is drawn into the action, and interest is compelling from beginning to end. Plot twists, subterfuge, stratagem, and chicanery abound, heroes are heroic, and villains are down-right vicious."
This book has everything a sci-fi fan could want: an alien world, mutants, conflict and civil war, spaceships, super-technology and chapters full of action! There is even romance for young Peter.
The reader is pulled into the story, learning along with Peter the language, customs, food, technology and warfare practices of this alien culture. The vivid descriptions of the planet will feel as if readers are there assisting the earthling as he struggles with doing what he believes is morally right. There is a message here, which is oft repeated, a message of tolerance and hope.
Storyline is attention-grabbing, engaging and out of the ordinary. Settings are nicely detailed, reader is drawn into the action, and interest is compelling from beginning to end. Plot twists, subterfuge, stratagem, and chicanery abound, heroes are heroic, and villains are down-right vicious."
Very Believable
18 Dec 2008
Format:Hardcover
William Manchee's book, "Tarizon: The Liberator," will definitely appeal to young fans of science fiction but also is a well told story of good versus evil, with a likeable, young hero that will appeal to most readers, particularly the teen to twenty-something set. While this book starts with the premise that there are aliens from another planet living among us they are not so different to put off the casual reader. They look human with the only difference that they have gills. Their planet, Tarizon used to be a beautiful place but was nearly destroyed following a series of volcanic eruptions. This premise is very believable. As the inhabitants of Tarizon try to cope they become embroiled in political unrest, resulting in a civil war between the Loyalists, the group believing in restoring rights for all life forms, including a growing mutant population and the Purists who want to rid Tarizon of the mutants and all non-human, intelligent life. This a theory easy to relate to as throughout time there have been civilizations on earth through genocide and ethnic cleansing that have basically tried to do the same thing. Basically, the beings from Tarizon need earthlings and in this book, US citizens to help repopulate their planet. They make a deal with the US government to give them advanced technology in exchange for healthy humans to aid in the repopulation. The story's seventeen year old hero, Peter Turner discovers the basics of this plot and is exiled to Tarizon where he is thought by many to be the prophesized liberator. How he adapts to another planet, customs and language while escaping assassination is a compelling story. Peter stands up for and works for what he believes is right and that always makes a good
Great Imagination
4 Nov 2008
Format:Hardcover
Who would have thought that someone could be such a versatile writer? Manchee successfully crossed over from a down-to-earth lawyer battling evil to outerspace battling evil. You can really see his imagination at work. An Earth boy (teenager) gets whisked off Earth to another planet that had been devastated by erupting volcanoes. He is dubbed "The Liberator" and reluctantly he accepts this title. Description of the aliens from a 3 headed genius mutant to the tiniest micro-organisms that can build fantastic buildings allows you visualize these as you get caught up in the action taking place. It is a book you will have a hard time putting down.
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