Right to Know
From the Aurora Award-winning author of Marseguro (DAW Books) comes a fast-paced space opera about first contact - with a difference.

When Art Stoddard, the civilian information officer for the generation starship Mayflower II, is kidnapped by a secret military organization determined to overthrow the Captain and Crew, he becomes embroiled in a conflict that tests everything he believed to be true, forced to choose between preserving social order and restoring the people's right to know.

His problems escalate when he's ripped from the safety of his ship by the mysterious residents of the unknown planet that is the ship's destination and becomes a pawn in a game that will determine the fate of ship and planet alike. As he and his newfound friends rush to save both, he faces questions of courage, loyalty, and moral responsibility.

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Right to Know
From the Aurora Award-winning author of Marseguro (DAW Books) comes a fast-paced space opera about first contact - with a difference.

When Art Stoddard, the civilian information officer for the generation starship Mayflower II, is kidnapped by a secret military organization determined to overthrow the Captain and Crew, he becomes embroiled in a conflict that tests everything he believed to be true, forced to choose between preserving social order and restoring the people's right to know.

His problems escalate when he's ripped from the safety of his ship by the mysterious residents of the unknown planet that is the ship's destination and becomes a pawn in a game that will determine the fate of ship and planet alike. As he and his newfound friends rush to save both, he faces questions of courage, loyalty, and moral responsibility.

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Right to Know

Right to Know

by Edward Willett
Right to Know

Right to Know

by Edward Willett

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Overview

From the Aurora Award-winning author of Marseguro (DAW Books) comes a fast-paced space opera about first contact - with a difference.

When Art Stoddard, the civilian information officer for the generation starship Mayflower II, is kidnapped by a secret military organization determined to overthrow the Captain and Crew, he becomes embroiled in a conflict that tests everything he believed to be true, forced to choose between preserving social order and restoring the people's right to know.

His problems escalate when he's ripped from the safety of his ship by the mysterious residents of the unknown planet that is the ship's destination and becomes a pawn in a game that will determine the fate of ship and planet alike. As he and his newfound friends rush to save both, he faces questions of courage, loyalty, and moral responsibility.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781989398227
Publisher: Shadowpaw Press
Publication date: 01/05/2021
Series: Peregrine Rising , #1
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 254
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

EDWARD WILLETT is the author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction for readers of all ages. Marseguro (DAW Books) won the Aurora Award (honouring Canadian science fiction and fantasy) for Best Long-Form Work in English; his young adult fantasy Spirit Singer won a Saskatchewan Book Award. Several other of his books have been shortlisted for those and other awards.

Ed's most recent novel is the far-future humorous outer-space adventure The Tangled Stars (DAW Books). Other recent titles include Star Song, a finalist for both the Aurora Award and Saskatchewan Book Award for Young Adult Literature, published by Shadowpaw Press; Blue Fire (written as E.C. Blake), also from Shadowpaw Press; and the Worldshapers series (Worldshaper, Master of the World, and The Moonlit World) from DAW. His nonfiction runs the gamut from science books to biographies to history. He hosts Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers podcast (theworldshapers.com), in which he talks to other science fiction and fantasy authors about their creative process, and has Kickstarted several Shapers of Worlds anthologies featuring guests of the podcast.

In addition to being a writer, Ed is a professional actor and singer who has performed in numerous plays, musicals, and operas, and sung in several auditioned choirs, including the Canadian Chamber Choir. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, with his wife, Margaret Anne Hodges, P. Eng., a past president of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan. They have one daughter, Alice, and a black Siberian cat, Shadowpaw. You can find Ed online at www.edwardwillett.com.

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