Liberty's Daughter, by Naomi Kritzer
An Anti-Heinleinesque YA adventure.
Fairwood Press, 2023, 264 pages
Beck Garrison lives on a seastead - an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, assembled by libertarian separatists a generation ago. She's grown up comfortable and sheltered, but starts doing odd jobs for pocket money.
To her surprise, she finds that she's the only detective that a debt slave can afford to hire to track down the woman's missing sister. When she tackles this investigation, she learns things about life on the other side of the waterline - not to mention about herself and her father - that she did not expect. And that some people will stop at nothing to keep her from talking about . . .
The daughter of a Heinleinian patriarch discovers the dark side of living in a libertarian colony.
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Fairwood Press, 2023, 264 pages
Beck Garrison lives on a seastead - an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, assembled by libertarian separatists a generation ago. She's grown up comfortable and sheltered, but starts doing odd jobs for pocket money.
To her surprise, she finds that she's the only detective that a debt slave can afford to hire to track down the woman's missing sister. When she tackles this investigation, she learns things about life on the other side of the waterline - not to mention about herself and her father - that she did not expect. And that some people will stop at nothing to keep her from talking about . . .
The daughter of a Heinleinian patriarch discovers the dark side of living in a libertarian colony.
My complete list of book reviews.