The Island Worlds By John Maddox Roberts
The Island Worlds are a series of fantasy and science fiction novels by John Maddox Roberts that are themed on intergalactic science fiction elements. The first novel of the series was Act of God that was first published in 1985 to much critical acclaim. After much commercial success with the first novel, Roberts went on to publish three more titles culminating in the 1990 published Delta Pavonis.
The novels of the Island World series are about the interactions and interrelations between space and humanity on planet earth. The themes of the novels range from attacks on planet Earth from outer space, natural phenomenon from space that threaten the planet and the struggle for resources which can often spill into outer space. The protagonists …show more content…
The novel is set in the 21st century where everything that had been predicted for years has finally come to pass. The poor became even poorer while the rich grew even richer. Raw materials have become very expensive and scarce perhaps due to a socialistic bureaucracy that made private enterprise almost impossible or maybe it is because of profiteering capitalists that have hoarded most of it. The only way to freedom and liberty for the masses is to get off the planet and into space where the asteroid belt is still relatively untouched by human activity. But many people on both sides of the divide do not feel like dividing the Solar system into free and slave and want independence for all of it.
Delta Pavonis the fourth novel is another excellent thriller and a must read in the series. The novel is set in Delta Pavonis an alien planet where human beings migrated to after assurances that aliens found them too ugly to make a meal of. But Dierdre does not believe the assurances having never once believed the words of anyone in authority. The authorities know of her attitude and have in fact assigned her to Pavonis as some sort of punishment for insubordination. The least desirable of the planets they have found, it has some of the most dictatorial rulers though it turns out to be Deirdre’s luckiest
The novels of the Island World series are about the interactions and interrelations between space and humanity on planet earth. The themes of the novels range from attacks on planet Earth from outer space, natural phenomenon from space that threaten the planet and the struggle for resources which can often spill into outer space. The protagonists …show more content…
The novel is set in the 21st century where everything that had been predicted for years has finally come to pass. The poor became even poorer while the rich grew even richer. Raw materials have become very expensive and scarce perhaps due to a socialistic bureaucracy that made private enterprise almost impossible or maybe it is because of profiteering capitalists that have hoarded most of it. The only way to freedom and liberty for the masses is to get off the planet and into space where the asteroid belt is still relatively untouched by human activity. But many people on both sides of the divide do not feel like dividing the Solar system into free and slave and want independence for all of it.
Delta Pavonis the fourth novel is another excellent thriller and a must read in the series. The novel is set in Delta Pavonis an alien planet where human beings migrated to after assurances that aliens found them too ugly to make a meal of. But Dierdre does not believe the assurances having never once believed the words of anyone in authority. The authorities know of her attitude and have in fact assigned her to Pavonis as some sort of punishment for insubordination. The least desirable of the planets they have found, it has some of the most dictatorial rulers though it turns out to be Deirdre’s luckiest