In language translation, you may get a literally accurate word-for-word translation. but miss the meaning entirely. And in space-type translation. the effect may be the same!
Intelligence is a great help in the evolution-by-survival--but intelligence without muscle is even less useful than muscle without brains. But it's so easy to forget that muscle--plain physical force--is important, too!
As the space fleets of an outraged Terran Confederation close in on the outlaw planet of Fruyling's World, the destinies of slave and master meet explosively, and from the shock of battle and its aftermath come an unexpected and awesome conclusion.
This novel presents timeless themes of faith, redemption, civil conflict, and betrayal. Set in the lost world of central Africa in the 1890's, the Children of Fire and their fatefull visit from " Messenger", a missionary named Thomas Owen. Tribal mysticism and culture clash with Victorian era values of Christianity , with some intrigue, adventure and epic battles.