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Plot Summary of Challenger's Hope
"Nicholas Seafort, now promoted to commander, is betrayed by his commanding officer as a fleet sets out to search for the aliens he has discovered. Forced to take on a passenger quota of violent street kids and abandoned to die on a derelict ship, he has to hold them together according to his strict codes of honour and Navy regulations, under pressure of mutiny and the threat of imminent attack. But how long can he keep them alive?"
Jo Berry, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Challenger's Hope
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Plot
Tone of book - very upbeat
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes
Plotlets: - preventing an ecological disaster - fighting a disease/illness affecting everyone
Training/Apprent. Yes
Working up the ranks of... - armed forces
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - search for identity/new understanding - change of heart
War or Invasion Yes
Major kinds of combat: - hand to hand - guns - spaceship battles
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - navy soldier
Age: - 20's-30's
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - navy soldier
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Spaceship setting: - futuristic human warship - someone is depressurized
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
scientific jargon? (SF only) - an average amount of scientific explanation
Sex in book? Yes
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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