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In the first book of the Farodun Down series, Farodun is an adolescent Human boy growing up on Ilex. This outcast moon of Aylini Gynth is nothing like its lovely sisters, Ieus and Farodunus, and its treacherous, geologically young terrain and fearsome fauna seem to lie in wait just beyond…


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Okay first of all, what did I just read? Second of all, I laughed, I cried. Third of all, I have never read a space western in my life but if it’s written by A.S. Miyazaki I will now read them ALL. What a storytelling gift this author has, and I do believe I detected the author’s own “soul signature” on this story. That’s what makes it connect. It’s a story about a lost, abandoned, grievously injured, and lonely little boy (11-ish? But this is not YA) who must first find a way to survive, but then also, to explore…

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