The Kobo Series
Two worlds. One species fighting for survival. A saga that explores what it means to be human when humanity itself is in question.
Kobo
Themes: Identity, Domestication, Revolution
Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction
Setting: Pavin System, Loma
Kobo, a 14-year old boy, is the pampered pet of two grobs on the planet Pavin near the center of the Milky Way galaxy whose ancestors were brought to Pavin millennia before and domesticated as pets. Kobo, like other humans on Pavin, is raised largely in isolation from other humans and therefore without language or culture. Soon his grobs acquire a companion for Kobo, a 15-year old girl named Ra. The pair have two babies, both of whom are sold as toddlers to other grobs. When the second is sold, Kobo attacks the male grob with a knife, and he and Ra are separately transported to the planet Loma in the Pavin system where humans work as slaves in the mines. The story follows Kobo and Ra as they learn to communicate, work in the mines and discover a community of humans in hiding from the grobs.
Kobo’s Children is a sequel to Kobo, which told the story of Kobo and his mate Ra as pampered human pets of two grobs on the planet Pavin near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and later as slaves in the mines on Loma, another planet in the Pavin system. Kobo’s Children, follows Ra, now a leader of the human community on Loma after Kobo’s death, as she finds a mate in Azoo, previously hunted by grobs for sport on Pavin, and as they struggle against a rebellious faction in the community. It also follows Na, the daughter of Ra and Kobo who was sold as a toddler and later kidnapped from her loving grob owner by grobs who train her as a performer in their human circus. Eventually, Ra and the other humans on Loma are discovered by an expedition from Earth exploring the center of the galaxy, who must decide whether and how to make contact with those humans and with the grobs.
Kobo's Children
Themes: Memory, Revolution, Legacy
Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction
Setting: Earth-Grob Contact Era
