![]() The group is attacked repeatedly by space pirates, and most of the adults are raped, killed, or kidnapped by the end of the story. Hope's family sets out in a "space bubble" with many other refugees. Series synopsis 1 Refugee (1983) ISBN 0-7388-0693-5 Follows Hope and his family's flight from their home on Callisto to Jupiter. ![]() ![]() It is clear from the introductions and epilogues that Hope died before his memoir's publication and that his career as military man, politician, executive and statesman was greatly misunderstood by the public, especially his various affairs with women, a major focus of the series. The series is presented as Hope's first-person autobiography, and includes his image as a tyrant and womanizer. A "Missile Crisis" is an event in the series many other such correspondences abound. Ganymede parallels Cuba, and has a Communist government allied with North Saturn's, which corresponds to the Soviet Union. Many events in the series parallel modern-day situations for instance, Mars is controlled by the countries formerly comprising the Middle East, and has the largest supply of iron, the primary fuel in Anthony's universe. Various planets, moons and asteroids within the Solar System have political, religious and geographical affiliations similar to those on 1980s Earth. The novels are set in a future several hundred years distant at a point where the nations of Earth have expanded into and filled the Solar System. It is considerably more adult-themed than many of Anthony's earlier works. The series revolves around the character Hope Hubris and his family, and charts Hope's ascent from poor Hispanic refugee to Tyrant of Jupiter, a single person heading the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of the government. Reissued mid-2010s by Open Road Integrated Mediaīio of a Space Tyrant series is a six-book science-fiction series by Piers Anthony based within the Solar System.
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