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Jackal Bird

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by Michael Barley

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Jackal Bird Survival is the most dangerous game of all... Jackal Bird follows the terraforming and political evolution of the colony world of Isurus, also called “New Foster”, where the colonist’s children play a dangerous game designed to indoctrinate them into an adult life of revolution, political turmoil and cultural upheaval. Intrigue, conflict, and intricate maneuvering are the norms on a world where control means everything, and survival is the most dangerous game of all. About Michael Barley Michael Barley was born in England, and his family came to Canada in 1948. He is an architect, and has always enjoyed writing. His books include 'Jackal Bird', 'Seven Days In December' (a group effort - he is one of four authors) and 'Northline' - a dystopian novel about a special type of train. Michael and his wife have several children, as well as numerous grandchildren. [MORE] Praise “As richly evocative and endlessly inventive as anything by Ursula K. LeGuin...” — Spider Robinson "Jackal Bird is one of the most assured debuts in SF in some time…complex, evocative, and well wrought … it creates a world as marvelous and believable as Frank Herbert's Dune … linking together stories of childhood, war, betrayal, intrigue, and love that are both richly complicated and utterly rooted in its invented world of Isurus…Intellectually, ethically, psychologically, and technologically challenging, it immediately establishes Barley as a talent to watch." - Douglas Barbour, The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1996 "This is an impressive debut … I like the three-part format of Jackal Bird, with its three chief narrators … the variety of voices is even more appealing than the essential cohesion of the book. Fine writing, a keen sense of both the difficulty and exoticism of this terraformed planet, and (above all) a depth and maturity of insight into both individual humans and humanity as a whole, make this novel a genuine pleasure to read…" -Farren Miller, Locus, December 1995

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