Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Teaser Tuesday - The Watchers of Ur: Cradle

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just:
* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title and author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their To Be Read (TBR) Lists if they like your teasers!

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So I've finally finished with The Barsoom Series (for now at least), and have moved on to something new, the first in a series called The Watchers of Ur: Cradle, by Lamonte M. Fowler.  I think would have to call the genre Religious Sci-Fi.  The story takes place about 500 years in the future, just as mankind is beginning to reach for the stars.

The Tease:
 "The Boa Vista was not only the flagship of Rivera's pirate fleet, she was also his greatest trophy, won during a daring assault on an Imperial Navy war games exercise with the planetary defense fleet of Venus more than five years earlier.  He had infiltrated the war games using a stolen Imperial ship code during a particularly difficult formation maneuver."
 -The Watchers of Ur: Cradle, by Lamonte M. Fowler

What's your Tease?

3 comments:

  1. Sounds like it could be an interesting series. My teasers are from Struck by Jennifer Bosworth and The Department of Magic by Rod Kierkegaard Jr.. Happy reading!

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  2. What qualifies it as Religious SciFi? Does it explore religious themes like Zelazny's Lord of Light and LeGuin's Lathe of God, or does it push particular religious views?

    http://johnwiswell.blogspot.com/2012/05/teaser-tuesday-across-nightingale-floor.html

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    1. I'm only about a third of the way into the book at this point, but so far a major portion of the plot revolves around the creation stories and the war between God and his angels and Lucifer and his followers. So far I haven't found a specific religious theme, but the story does seem more heavy in the religion aspect than the sci-fi aspect.
      In many stories religion is a background issue of plot or character device, but here it seems more central to the story, I guess?

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