by Ron Jacobs
UR was given half of the recently written novel, Forced War. It was an exciting read. It is in a time of war and it does have a lot of characters, at least at the beginning. The first four chapters covers most of the war, which means covering about 4 or 5 years, leaving the rest of the novel to cover the last year or so of the war and a little after. The story is written mostly about Hoban Rantré Imonora and Jucal Imonora.
These two men are the main focus of the novel though it does add in characters such as General Sir, the mysterious agent woman from the Saving Worlds and so on. It adds some characters we have never met before and kills many. For people who do not like death, you probably shouldn’t read this book. The book (at least what we have received) is not thickly laced with death but it is about war meaning there is death all around.
Over all I think that the piece we have received is a great story and I think it has ruined me. I want the rest of it so bad it almost hurts. Maybe RB will have some pitty on me and give me the rest. It doesn’t look likely. I am not aloud (by the author) to comment on writing or style because, and I quote, “I need time to be able to edit. It was really a rushed job I feel for having the time constraint and having to juggle the novel between college a job and Taekwondo. It really, really needs to be edited.”
But overall the story is amazing so far.
We Have added the excerpt that came out in November as part of this article.
November 2007: RB has posted an excerpt from his novel! Here it is in all its glory:
Captain Hoban Rantré Imonora was known to some as a smuggler others a bounty hunter. He disliked the names that people gave him it was hard to switch from one to the other. From bounty hunter to smuggler it was always a different story. People tried to take things away all the time. He called himself a criminal. Rantré was in his shuttle on the way back from a job but people don’t want to leave you be when you’re a criminal and know it. A call came through the COM system.
“Ran?” Leesa’s voice was scared and tired.
“Yeah, what’s up?” he asked. There was too much coin sitting behind him for him to be really worried right now.
“I just got somethin’ on our sensors,” she whispered into her mouth piece as if someone might here her.
“What is it? Can you tell?” Now Rantré was a little worried. He looked at Jiso and back at the COM.
“It looks like an Imperial Destroyer. Ran I’m scared.”
“Leesa if they catch you you’re a hostage. Understand?” Rantré said very authoritatively. There was no answer. “Understand?” he said a little louder.
“Yes,” was all the very small voice said.
“Get the engines prepped for jump. I want to hit H-space as soon as I’m aboard.”
“Okay.”
Rantré looked over at Jiso again, “Move over!”
“But I’m flyin’”
“Your flyin’ too jing re slow! Get outta the way!”
We hope you enjoyed that we will be sure to keep you posted of all new events and leads we get on Forced War (the novel by RB).
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