Legacies: Legacies

by Alison Sinclair

Book Overview

Five generations ago a renegade band of star voyagers fled their home planet. Looking back, they saw a terrible sight--their world twisted, misshaped, destroyed by the incalculable blast of their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061056995
• ISBN13: 9780061056994
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Eos
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Confronting the sins of the past

Sinclair's debut novel is phenomenal. A mentally disabled hero, Lian D'Haldt is partially raised by empathic aliens on a world where his own people, the Burdanians, live an unreal existance in an idealised artificial home environment, whilst knowing all the time that they might have destroyed the the very world they seek to recreate and remember. Lian's inability to communicate with his own people, and his sense of dislocation, proves however to be the spark for the Burdanians to confront their guilt over their past actions and return to their homw world. Legacies is a beautifully written evocation of not one but two alien worlds and peoples, with an interesting and successful structure; Lian's personal story is told in parrallel to the tale of the return to Burdania. Needs reading more than once.

Perhaps.....Perhaps we all need to be dropped on our heads.

Lian D'Halldt was hurt in a childhood accident - He fell on his head, and nearly died. Modern technology saved his life, but there were scars which affected his memory and his speech. As a result, no one would any longer take him seriously. Everyone dismisses him, including his father. Yet, it is Lian who struggles for his people not to make the same mistakes their forefathers made. It is Lian who uses his few words to make his peers take his hope - Burdania's hope - for reconcilation - seriously. It is Lian who works ferociously to reunite two peoples, eventually discovering respect, honor, love, and a reason to love life. Perhaps.....Perhaps we all need to be dropped on our heads, at least once