Review: Serious sci-fi
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2012
Maybe it's because I just watched Buster Crabbe in a collection of "Flash Gordon" serials, but I loved this. The character is old-style. While he's a bit of an anti-hero, he doesn't let a challenge turn him into a wuss. William Zellmann starts the novel out with a character that reminded me of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Sure he's a terrible pirate, awful guy. But the reader knows better. This guy is straight out of an adventure novel of old but in sci-fi trappings. He makes a break with his former mates, they try to kill him and he ends up saving a couple of planets and getting the girl. Sorry spoiler. This is my first of Zellmann's but not my last. Loved the writing, characters and challenges.