Freedom's Challenge

by Anne McCaffrey

Book Overview

The colonists from Freedom's Landing and Freedom's Choice have made a new home for themselves on the planet where they were abandoned by the warlike Cattani. Now they possess the technology they need to go back to war with the deadly Eosi--with a surprise strike at enslaved planet Earth itself

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399143971
• ISBN13: 9780399143977
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great, I love this series

I have read most of these books, borrowed them from the library. Now I can have the whole series on my own book shelf!

Fantastic series Anne Mc Caffrey is great

I love this series it is a wonderful story I read it over many times I have all 4 books and it doesn't get old. Each book is a stand-alone but builds on each other and I love that the characters are so real and it is great to see what they do and how rich they become in each book. I hope there are more books in this series.

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I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this third installation of the Freedom's series. I loved the way they used a male voice and female voice to play the different characters. Listening to the story is a little like watching it play out on a stage. The Freedom series is a good tale, but it's just a little on fast-forward. The "dropped" has accomplished a lot in the time they spent on Botany. Granted they have thousands of "dropped" with highly specialized skills that enable the former-slaves to develop Botany so quickly, but I'm sure a lot of sci-fi realists (is there really such a thing) would be a little put off by what the Botanists have achieved (freeing Earth and Cattani from the dreaded Eosi) in just a short time with their wit being their main resource. Just keep your vision on fast-forward and you'll enjoy the series. I'm looking forward to the fourth in the series, Freedom's Ransom, due out June 2002. I hope it'll explain a few things and tie up some loose ends.

Book Three was great! Where's Book Four?

I can't believe it! I found a book that both my wife and I like! Three books! She hates it when I get into a book, but when I finished the first book I handed it to her and asked her to try it. Just like Mikey, she liked it. As a matter of fact she loved. We have read and enjoyed all three books but, where is book number four? Anybody know? We're waiting!

Great!

This third book in the Freedom series is the best yet! I couldn't put it down!

Great ending to a terrific series

Catteni are mercenaries to their overlords, the oppressive Esoi. When they invade Earth, they ship some of their captives off to the planet Barevi to be sold as slaves. One of the prisoners, Kris Bjornsen, escapes and heals an injured Catteni, Zainal. The pair, along with other humans and aliens, is captured and shipped to the uninhabited planet of Botany Bay. The place turns out to be a good provider and the inhabitants flourish. With the help of the Farmers, the real owners of Botany Bay, the planet is made impregnable to an Esoi attack. Although Kris and Zainal become mates and live peacefully on their adopted planet, both know that they must break the stranglehold the Esoi have on their native worlds. The colonists infiltrate Earth to coordinate the resistance movement. The endgame has begun and Kris and Zainal know that the lives of several billion people are at stake if their daring plan fails. For those who have read FREEDOM'S LANDING and FREEDOM'S CHOICE, FREEDOM'S CHALLENGE will prove to be an emotionally satisfying conclusion to one of the best space operas in years. Over the course of the trilogy, Anne McCaffrey has developed her primary and secondary characters to such a degree that the audience will regard both human and alien as real beings. The romance between the human and the Cattani is perfectly described as it condemns prejudice especially towards biracial couples. The magnificent Ms. McCaffrey has provided a memorable series. Hariet Klausner