M.J. Engh Bücher

Liss settles on the peaceful planet Bimran, but the natives classify her as a male because of her birth-contol implant, and they become obsessed about sending her to either Heaven or Hell

"This unusual, enjoyable second novel by Engh ( Arslan ) is a charming picaresque adventure set on another planet. To this unnamed planet comes the odd-looking man known as the Exile. The Warden, Lethgro, has captured the Exile after his escape from Sollet Castle, and now holds him prisoner on the small sailing ship Mouse. But when an inspector of the Council of Beng is about to board the Mouse , Captain Repnomar, seeing that her friend the Warden does not wish to surrender the Exile to the Council, cuts and runs. And so begins for Lethgro, Repnomar and the Exile (who we have begun to suspect is an Earthman) an around-the-world journey over sea and land, through strange places previously unseen by civilized eye. Engh tells the story in a 19th century prose style: ("For, as he said, they did not know when they would come to water again; and Repnomar thought this so prudent that she filled the little bailer that dangled always at her belt."). This device is appropriate to the level of civilization on this planet, which resembles life here a century ago." -Publisher's Weekly

"General Arslan sweeps into Kraftsville, Illinois as the conqueror of America and Russia, which is no small achievement for a warlord from the tiny state of Turkistan. And then the charismatic and utterly ruthless Arslan sets about changing the world from his base in the town. For Franklin Bond, the principal of the Kraftsville school, this is the beginning of a crash course in power, politics, compromise and ambivalence. For Hunt Morgan, one of his students, it's a lesson in humiliation, subjugation... and love."--Back cover.