Road To Ramaree: Book 2 of The Soman Chronicle (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798994736739)

Soman returns from his Epsilon Eridani mission to an Earth of vastly developed technologies: orbital stations, new moon colonies, and life extension treatment-the Dranar. His first job is recovering his daughter's preservation descroid. No problem, he knows where to look. Or does he? Is he really Soman? Soman is suspected of being a synthetic, and synthetics are illegal in Alta-unless you're among the elite. The elites live in the Clave, hoarding the Dranar. They employ profes, who do the work that earns the Clave's vast wealth, neurologically trained to work at an unimaginable pace. Profes are promised eventual Clave membership, but how many actually win it?

Soman connects with Mith, a profe striving to achieve the Clave. Strangely, Mith has no memory of her childhood. She is plagued by shadowy activities beyond her control, deep within her brain. Soman helps Mith earn life extension. Or he implicates her in charges of terrorism and imitating a human. Mith helps Soman find his daughter. Or she plots to sell his genome.

On the run, they uncover dire truths that will rock both their worlds.

Road To Ramaree is Book 2 of The Soman Chronicle. Part space exploration, part hopeful dystopia, the series explores the quest for life extension and the conflicts it creates; the struggles of a peaceful society to defend itself; extreme forms of capitalism; and possibilities-good and bad-for two beings to live in one body. While at the borders of the Universe, the aloof Vradra place beacons, and watch.