Science Fiction
Date Published: 11/23/18
Publisher: Chandra Press
The remote Intergalactic Penal Colony on the planet Rijel 12 is a very profitable enterprise. Its desolate surface is an uninhabitable wasteland relentlessly scorched by its sun, but inside the planet is a vast treasure trove of the most precious resources in the galaxy.
Prisoners sentenced to Rijel 12 know it’s a one-way ticket. It used to be a convict would serve their time and come home. That stopped a while ago. Inmates are forced to work the mines in wretched conditions and the death rate is staggering. Luckily for the warden, new inmates arrive monthly to replenish the labor pool. Business has never been better.
From the darkness of their miserable existence, one prisoner decides to take a stand and begins to organize a resistance. Inmates rally to the cause and prepare for rebellion. Can the rag-tag rebels of ‘New Australia’ succeed in their quest for freedom or will the warden and the overpowering might of the Interplanetary Authority extinguish their only hope?
From new author, King Everett Medlin, comes an action-packed epic of hope, rebellion, and the quest for redemption.
My Review:
On the planet Rijel 12 stands a prison created by different
planets in the galaxy for a place to send all the criminals. There is money to
be made from the planet. Prisoners are sent there to mine all the resources. The prisoners are worked very hard with long
hours. They are actually no more than slaves. They have to reach a certain quota
by the end of each day if they would like to eat that day.
Once it was known how much money could be made from the
planet more and more prisoners were sent to the colony. Prisoners once a long
time ago came to the planet did their time and went back home but no more.
These days it is more likely that they will die from the conditions of their
living arrangements and the amount of hard labor they are acquired to do before
they have the chance to server their time.
Some of the prisoners are fed up with the way they are being
treated and start an uprising to fight their way to freedom. The prisoners
gather up an army to fight past the guards and the wardens to hopefully gain their
freedom and live a life of peace a life of their own choosing. Who will win
this fight? Will it be the prisoners or the warden?
Rijel 12 doesn’t have much action but you get a lot of
background info about the creation of the planet and what the prisoners mine
and what it is used for. You also get all the info and background on the
prisoners and what they did to end up on the planet.
While reading it I kept picturing it in my head and thought
this would make a great movie. I could see the prisoner’s cells in my mind and
I could see them working in the mines and what they may look like. I could just
picture the prisoners down below the surface working while the warden sat above
ground in an office having a cup of coffee or whatever he preferred with his
feet propped up. I would love to see this on the big screen to compare what I
saw to what someone else sees.
I would recommend Rijel 12 to all fans of science fiction.
About the Author
King Everett Medlin has been writing since 2013 when he first developed the idea for Rijel 12. It was originally designed to be a SciFi series, with the objective of creating several short installments. Instead, he got a lucky break when Chandra Press from San Diego responded favorably to the original draft, deciding to publish it as a full-length novel. King lives in Denver, Colorado with his lovely wife Caroline and has two grown children. He's a graduate of the University of Oklahoma where he played college Rugby and remains a diehard Sooners fan to this day. His specialties are Science Fiction and Mystery/Suspense novels, focusing on unusual stories with intriguing plot-lines and amazing characters.
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