title: Freedom's Challenge
author:  Anne McCaffrey 
description: Abandoned on the planet Botany by their Catteni masters, a group of humans and other enslaved races now seeks to reclaim their worlds for themselves. This third installment of a series that includes Freedom's Landing (LJ 4/15/95) and Freedom's Choice (LJ 5/15/97) chronicles the stages of the war for liberation, from the theft of Catteni ships to the liberation of cargoes of slave laborers to a bold strike at the heart of the oppressor. McCaffrey excels as a storyteller and as a creator of worlds. Despite an occasional lapse in suspense, her latest novel provides a satisfying culmination to a saga of desperate courage and the desire for freedom. Most libraries should add this to their sf collections. <br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **“Readers will savor [McCaffrey’s] works for generations to come.”**
  
  
  — ** _Starlog_**
  
  
  Praise for Anne McCaffrey’s Freedom series
  
  
  _Freedom’s Landing_
  
  
  “McCaffrey has created another set of winning protagonists and a carefully
  detailed, exotic background.”
  
  
  — _Publishers Weekly_
  
  
  “There are enough problems and mysteries involved in establishing a colony to
  keep things interesting and to promise intriguing developments to come.”
  
  
  — _Locus_
  
  
  “Not for nothing do her fans call the author ‘the Dragonlady’…She crafts a
  sci-fi adventure that will please followers of the genre and of the author.”
  
  
  — _Dayton Daily News_
  
  
  “Exciting and totally convincing…There can be only more action in the sequels
  McCaffrey presumably plans.”
  
  
  — _Booklist_
  
  
  “The narrative hits an admirable groove.”
  
  
  — _Kirkus Reviews_
  
  
  _Freedom’s Choice_
  
  
  “A fun adventure…Delightfully audacious.”
  
  
  — _Locus_
  
  
  “This episode of th