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An amazing story written by one of the top writing teams of the 20th and 21st centuries. Janet and Chris Morris are superb and prolific writers. Any book written by this team is well worth reading, but “Outpassage” is amongst their best works. This classic style science fiction story has it all; space exploration, colonization, first contact, military adventure, evil corporations, aliens with unknowable motivations and goals, and of course some romance, with lots of excitement. The adventure has a space opera feel, but goes beyond that, in that the described technology is scientifically plausible qualifying the story as "hard science fiction." There is more than enough intrigue and mystery to keep the reader turning pages. The narrative is from the perspective of the main characters which feels very intimate and works incredibly well for the story. It is so well done that you become completely attached to and absorbed by the character’s hopes and fears. Like all great science fiction, embedded expertly into the tale are important lessons about human nature and the pitfalls that can lead to a future dystopia. Everyone should read this book. I absolutely loved it and you will too. I give it TEN STARS, five is far too few!


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Outpassage Janet Morris Chris Morris 9780517008324 Books Reviews

'Outpassage' is a Sci-Fi novel set some five or six generations from today, when the United States (And presumably other nations) have taken to the stars to mine ores and look for new worlds to colonize. The story centers around Sargent Dennis "Det" Cox and a mysterious event that happened to him on his last deploy to a world only known as X31A . A world Where Dennis saw something that rattled him badly. Now after being shanghaied along with a beautiful executive for the mysterious and seemingly immoral IST corporation, a company that runs and oversees mining on these supposedly barren rocks floating in space, Det, along with the aforementioned Paige Barret must unravel the frightening mystery and possible conspiracy that plagues them on X66B. A mystery that seeks to ensnare the rest of the galaxy in its frightening grasp. One that will shake the beliefs of countless men and women, for there are no aliens in space, are there?

Outpassage by Janet and Chris Morris is an extremely well written novel about a military unit caught up in a battle against rebels who may be more than human. It's about a man and a woman caught up in something so much larger than themselves that they no longer know who to trust, including each other. This is a fantastic, old school Sci-Fi novel, written by the writing duo who have brought us the "Sacred Band/Sacred Band of Stepson's " novels. Det Cox is one cool character. Five stars. easily.
I am no science fiction aficionado. But, I have read my share of it, books that are akin to the genre I love, dark and heroic fantasy, in everything but setting—books of heroic deeds and daring-do. I am here to say that Outpassage is a book of wondrous endeavors, of a desperate struggle against physical danger, the impersonal machinations of corporations and the black hopelessness in one’s own heart.

Outpassage puts a face on corporate indifference (in the form of IST corporation) and calls him God (Godfrey). It too identifies the calculating, measuring heart of these same corporate interests and calls her Paige, an executive at IST. IST is a cold, empty corporation, conducting terraforming activities on outworld planets thought devoid of life. God is the designer of a corporate strategy that measures cost benefit in terms of lives and misery. Paige is just as important as God in the implementation of this strategy. She plays the part of the good Nazi bureaucrat, the rationalization of numbers and statistics that drive despair, murder and greed—the ignorant accomplice. How many must be sacrificed by IST before the company’s activities become cost-prohibitive? It is only a question of numbers. In the early pages of the book, Paige’s conscience takes a turn and finds the price too high. Because of these newly found scruples, she finds herself shanghaied and pressed into a cargo hold with other desperate souls on their way to work in the very terraforming mines she had begun to question.

Cox is the soldier’s soldier, a Ranger in the vein of the Rangers that came before, like Darby, Mosby and Merrill. In a world where the military is usurped for corporate interests, Cox finds himself faced with a mission that asks him to face down a rebellion that is fomenting in the outworlds, a rebellion that stands against the inhuman atrocities perpetrated by IST in the pursuit of progress. This Ranger must either follow his orders, or follow his conscience. Like those Rangers before, Cox "Rangers up" and does what must be done, despite the personal cost.

Is the good of the many truly more weighty than the good of the few? Outpassage attempts to answer this through the sacrifices made by regular-day heroes, soldiers of little consequence in a game of universal consequence. Cox and Paige must struggle against each other, IST, a rising rebellion and powers that are beyond their understanding as they seek their own escape and victory, but end up finding much more about the universe and about themselves than they could have ever imagined.

Equal parts military science fiction, heroic fantasy, and thriller, Outpassage is a great book that combines deep, conflicted characters that evolve from a small minded executive and a narrow focused soldier into well-developed individuals that are willing to sacrifice their own deeply held values for duty to a bigger cause, and honor that is all the more palpable because it comes at a terrible price—these regular people who become Heroes of a mythic ilk. I have an affinity for both of the main characters, having been both a soldier and a corporate executive in my life, and I can appreciate the pressures applied to both of the main characters in this book. And the author has done a great job of portraying them grappling with these values as they evolve into better, stronger, more heroic people, until they eventually abandon self-preservation for selflessness.

I saw things in the book that perhaps I was not meant to see, glimpses deeper than the crust and mantle of humanities’ soul—our need for love and life and permanence in the molten core of our being – our want to live and our need to love and be loved, and the often contentious relationship between these concepts that are a fundemental part of the human condition.

If you read this book, you will not only be entertained by well written, constant action, a pretty nifty (and somewhat unexpected) love triangle, sneaky spies and corporate agents, but you will also experience the deep satisfaction that comes with knowing that there are people willing to stand against the statistics, against the coldness of impersonal government bodies and cold corporate interests. By the end of the book, we find that vying for the good of the few ensures the good of the many.
An amazing story written by one of the top writing teams of the 20th and 21st centuries. Janet and Chris Morris are superb and prolific writers. Any book written by this team is well worth reading, but “Outpassage” is amongst their best works. This classic style science fiction story has it all; space exploration, colonization, first contact, military adventure, evil corporations, aliens with unknowable motivations and goals, and of course some romance, with lots of excitement. The adventure has a space opera feel, but goes beyond that, in that the described technology is scientifically plausible qualifying the story as "hard science fiction." There is more than enough intrigue and mystery to keep the reader turning pages. The narrative is from the perspective of the main characters which feels very intimate and works incredibly well for the story. It is so well done that you become completely attached to and absorbed by the character’s hopes and fears. Like all great science fiction, embedded expertly into the tale are important lessons about human nature and the pitfalls that can lead to a future dystopia. Everyone should read this book. I absolutely loved it and you will too. I give it TEN STARS, five is far too few!