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%T Mutineer's Moon
%A David Weber
%I Baen
%D October 1991
%O paperback, US$4.50
%P 315
%G ISBN 0-671-72085-6
The coauthor of Insurrection (RR#101) gives us another grand galumphing space
opera. See the gigantic alien battleship hidden within Earth's moon!
See its sentient command computer recruit a plucky young NASA hotshot
to be its new captain, point man in a attempt to undo the damage done
by a fifty-thousand-year-old mutiny! See the megalomaniacal bad guy
leader plotting sheerest eee-vil with international terrorists from
his base in the Antarctic! See hardware blowing up in all directions
as the good guys and bad guys face off, with (natch!) the Fate Of
Humanity Hanging In The Balance. As I've said before of similar
books, this is great stuff if you can take it without bicarbonate;
utter, unmitigated trash, but fun trash. Warning: the ending
smells like a set-up for sequel.
%T Barrayar
%A Lois McMaster Bujold
%I Baen
%D October 1991
%O paperback, US$4.99
%P 389
%G ISBN 0-671-72083-X
Really, all that needs to be said about this is that it's probably
Lois Bujold's best work yet. If that doesn't convince you to
immediately run out and buy a copy, you have probably somehow missed
discovering one of the best writers to come down the SF pike since
John Varley. This book's viewpoint character is Cordelia Naismith; it
immediately follows Shards Of Honor and deals with Vordarian's
Pretendership and events surrounding Miles Vorkosigan's birth. A tense,
funny, wise, and utterly wonderful novel. Enjoy!
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