Broken Slate, Kelly Jennings Reviews

“Really good story of an oppressive social system”

Written on: 21/10/2012 by plappen (19 reviews written)

Broken Slate, Kelly Jennings, 2011, ISBN 9781461074502 This novel is about a brutal, planet-wide system of slavery. It's also about one person's attempt to push back. Martin Eduardo was taken off his family's merchant spaceship in his mid-teens. He was put into the contract labor system on the planet Julian, where he has spent the other half of his life (perhaps "contract labor" sounds a little less awful than "slave," but it amounts to the same thing). Among the first things a contract... (read more)