In a dark future, the
orbiting Mars Platforms are an independent space nation and open trading port
where every vice known to man is legally practiced.
Sabine DeGuerra is a
professional concubine with a long list of wealthy clients. A master of dance, mathematics and martial
arts as well as sex, Sabine makes a comfortable living, though haunted by the
dark nightmares of her secret past and the dangers of her present.
Sabine’s life changes
dramatically when Mirabelle, a young orphan girl fleeing torture and death in a
tyrannical Mars colony, seeks her help.
Sabine risks her own life to get Mirabelle and herself off the platforms
and out of Mars space. Surrounded by the
cold, black vacuum of space, Death lurks around every corner of the platforms
at the hands of the Guard, the merciless security guild. Sabine has only her courage and cunning
against overwhelming and deadly odds…
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"Star
Dancer" is a tale set in a dark and violent future. A world in which
greed has taken its toll. Pollution and
global climate change have devastated the world, the nations waging global war
over dwindling resources as whole populations are reduced to near barbarism,
slavery again becoming the norm.
Fiction today. Fact tomorrow?
Who can say, in a
time when the strongest nation on Earth is led by a president who denies the
reality of climate change and global pandemic?
Who thrives in a political atmosphere of enmity and race hatred? Could the dystopian science fiction of today
become the inescapable reality of tomorrow?
The answer to that
question depends on the human capacity to hope.
And, to find the will to change.
The protagonist of “Star Dancer” is a woman shaped by a horrific past
and an even more horrific present. Yet,
she dares to hope. To fight, even at the
risk of her own life, to protect hope for a better tomorrow for the next
generation.
The cruelties and failures of the past are not easily forgotten. But, hope lies in the capacity of the human spirit to overcome all obstacles.
