โ Scribed by Simon R. Green
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Bestseller Green, author of the Deathstalker series (Deathstalker War, etc.), which concluded with Owen Deathstalker and his ragtag comrades defeating the evil Empress Lionstone, presents a swashbuckling sequel, in which Owen's descendant Lewis is dragged unwillingly into emulating his ancestor's desperate heroism. Lewis just wants to be a good Paragon (a kind of high-tech supercop/knight) and faithfully serve his best friend, King Douglas. Unfortunately, Lewis and the king's intended bride fall hopelessly in love. Even more unfortunately, as if there weren't enough monstrously subversive groups plotting against the throne from outside the court, Lewis's jealous rival, Finn, who has a perfect Paragon's surface but a brilliant sociopath's soul, succeeds in discrediting Lewis and throwing the government into disarray. And then the planet-scouring Terror erupts from another dimension. As is in a lot of space opera, the plot doesn't withstand close scrutiny, but this hardly matters as the narrative rushes from one dramatic set piece to the next. If the characterization seems just a shade above comic-book complexity, Green uses echoes of the somber King Arthur legend to lend extra weight. At the end, when Lewis sets off on his heroic quest to locate the original Deathstalker, accompanied by an outrageously diverse band of cohorts, the prospect of another long series of long novels actually sounds like fun.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
This stout, exuberant piece of intelligent space opera continues the saga of those elite warriors and masters of interstellar intrigue and violence, the Deathstalkers, one of whom, Douglas Campbell, is about to take the throne of the empire, which is at the height of its power, prosperity, and benignity. Campbell has even been assigned a bride, the gorgeous opera singer Jesamine Flowers. But terrorism looms even before the royal wedding and, after it, crashes the party on a truly ghastly scale, triggering some 400 pages of non-stop, slightly tongue-in-cheek action. There are plots, counterplots, subplots, and characters getting plotzed on "Death by Chocolate" ice cream as well as much undercover action, the covers for which are quite varied. In the end, Lewis Deathstalker leads a motley starship crew off to . . . the sequel, of which this book bodes well. Great fun if you don't take it too seriously. Roland Green
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