[bksvol-discuss] SUBMITTED: Helm by Steven Gould
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 23:27:47 -0500
This is a replacement for the existing copy on Bookshare which has missing
words, partial words, and numerous scanos.
RTF file. Spell checked, proof read, and headers stripped. 384 pages.
Gerald
Short Synopsis
17-year-old Leland?s life changes when he puts on the helm. Unknown to
Leland, it contains the knowledge needed to colonize his planet and the
personality of an original colonist who studied aikido.
Long Synopsis
Faced with global devastation, the last remnants of Earth's culture sent a
handful of colonists to a distant terraformed world to give humanity one
last, desperate chance.
Unable to provide the technology required for an advanced civilization, the
founders instilled in the colonists a strict code of conduct and gave them a
few precious imprinting devices: glass helmets that contain all of Earth's
scientific knowledge.
The colonists barely survived their landing on the world they called Agatsu.
Much of their precious technology from Earth was lost in the struggle to
endure. But one imprinting device remained.
Once in a generation, the heir to the province of Laal begins the arduous
training required to survive the imprinting of the Glass Helm and acquire
the knowledge of lost Earth. But Leland de Laal, the youngest son of one of
Agatsu's greatest leaders, has climbed the forbidden rock spire where the
Helm is kept and donned it, unaware that its knowledge has a terrible price.
To an unprepared mind it brings madness, agony, and even death.
Leland's father is forced to make a bitter choice to safeguard that
priceless legacy-and preserve his son's life. Leland must be Forged, his
body and his mind conditioned quickly so that he can survive the effects of
the imprinting.
Overnight, Leland is shunned, attacked by his own brothers, treated as a
shameful outcast, and at last banished to the distant outpost of Red Rock,
to receive military training from a legendary master of martial arts. And
there, Leland begins to unlock the dormant knowledge within him and prepare
for a crucial role in Agatsu's future.
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