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Wonderful tale, this hard scifi novel of the hard times of the planet Erin, whose Irish inhabitants came from a monocultural, multigeneration starship trek. I stayed up late finishing it. Did find it amusing that the back cover synopsis compared it to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, when it’s obviously mimicking Treasure Island in most ways. Captain Shaker is a very credible Long John Silver and Jay Hara a Jack Hawkins in hard vacuum. It’s a great pity that physicist-author Charles Sheffield has passed on. He was a very entertaining story teller.