Second Chances
- List Price: $24.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Tor Books
- Publish date: 08/01/2001
Description:
Well-reviewed fantasist Susan Shwartz returns to her science fiction roots with a riveting novel of honor and its loss, and the exploration of what it means to be a true hero. Second Chances is an homage to Joseph Conrad -- think of Lord Jim in space. As Conrad explored the themes of lost honor and guilt, expiation and heroism, Shwartz has created in her Jim a man haunted by guilt and his lifelong efforts to somehow atone -- no matter whether or not he merited the disgrace.
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As Conrad's Jim was a tragic and ultimately noble hero, so too is Shwartz's Jim. A professional soldier whose time has passed, Jim is stationed as security for a commercial venture critical to humanity's continued survival. Now he's just another "tin soldier", a prop for the military to look good to war-weary civilians. But he's never stopped caring about those who scorn him and the ideals to which he still clings. That caring is tested when he is thrust into a scandal not of his making and chooses to carry the burden of guilt no matter what. Because of his own pride . . . and maybe because that's the one thing he has left.
That, and a promise of a second chance.
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