Fox's Tale
About This Book
Jack Fox is a teenager trying to survive in a harsh, lawless world. He lives in Snakeport, often called the Snake, in a country known as the South, where there is no central government and the law is whatever your strength lets you enforce. His mother, Lilly, is an alcoholic whose health is physically breaking down. The two get by under the protection of Gracie, a successful shipping businesswoman and a lifelong friend of Lilly and others. Southern technology runs on horses, wind, and gunpowder, with rifled muskets that use firing caps. The author describes the setting as a variation on the American Civil War of the 1860s, mixed with the English Civil War of the 1600s and touches of Roman arrogance at its height, around 200 A.D. The North is complacent and self-satisfied. A hundred years earlier it coerced, bullied, and defeated the South in a war, and it now steals southern children to do the menial work that keeps its advanced, centralized culture running. Its technology is based on the projection of energy, which powers its horseless vehicles, and it also has advanced medicine and architecture. The war stripped the South of its own projectors. The North takes the natural resources and slaves it wants, but pays enough to win allies in the South. Not every Northerner is a projector. In the North, a person's ability to project energy decides their vocation, unless the person is female. Women there are valued above southern men, though not by much, and Northerners see Southerners as stupid, criminal, and incapable. Jack Fox changes everything.
ISBN: 9781964462011
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