The Affinity Trap - Softcover

Sketchley, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743468481 ISBN 13: 9780743468480

Publisher: Gardners Books, 2005

Synopsis

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About the Author

Martin Sketchley grew up in Tamworth, Staffordshire. Following a brief but passionate affair with music, he began writing behind a Tamworth market stall at the beginning of the 1990s, and sold his first short story to small press magazine Xenos in 1994. Having worked in retail and then catalogue publishing, he is now a freelance writer and editor. He lives in Birmingham with his wife, Rosaleen, and their two children.

From Publishers Weekly

Part postapocalyptic space opera and part male power fantasy, British author Sketchley's debut boasts a striking cover: a beautiful bare-bellied female brandishing a futuristic gun beside a muscle-bound male in a torn uniform hefting a much bigger gun. Former military intelligence officer Alexander Delgado has little respect for his ruthless commander, Gen. William Myson, whose Structure government rules 24th-century Earth. While illegally selling advanced technology to the alien Sinz, Myson forged an alliance with the triple-gendered Seriatt by fathering a child with "conosq" Vourniass Lycern, assigned child bearer to the Seriattic Royal Household. After Lycern runs away to the planet Veshc, home of the cultlike Affinity Group, Myson orders Delgado to retrieve her. Murdering his way to Lycern's side, Delgado finds her "undoubtedly the most enigmatic, mysterious creature he had ever encountered." After sex, however, he discovers he's infected with Lycern's pheromones and thus bound to her emotionally and physically. Sketchley's solid writing drives this plot-based story, but a lack of detailed world-building keeps it grounded to its '70s action-adventure foundations.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Gardners Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743468481
• ISBN 13: 9780743468480
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 306