A really interesting set of characters; the colorful characters kept me reading to the very end, even though this sort of novel (kind of a wild west, transposed out into space) is not my usual favorite.

As you get further into the novel, you start to realize there are some interesting moral questions, which turn in the end into a fascinating conclusion. Not at all what I expected from this novel, but I liked it. A lot. ( )

This is one of my all-time favorites. ( )

This was one of the better of Resnick's stories. It's set in his regular quasi-Old West universe where everyone is colorful and somewhat larger than life. These have a samey-samey feel to them after a while but I enjoyed the fact that not everyone was what they seemed aspects of this story. ( )

Santiago is such a pleasure to read. It has some of the most colorful characters in a sci-fi novel that I have read. The plot is engaging and there is a decent twist at the end.
The book follows Sebastian Nightingale Cain, much to his anger called the Songbird. He is a bounty hunter on the trail of the most notorious outlaw on the space frontier. The book is interspersed, at the beginnings of chapters mostly, with the ballad of Black Orpheus, who writes about the various characters on the frontier. This is followed by a short few paragraphs with information on that character and the manner that Black Orpheus met them, which turns into an interesting way to introduce whoever shows up in that chapter.
Cain has to deal with other brigands and is in a race against the best known bounty hunter in the galaxy, the Angel. The pace of the story is quick and it is a very easy read. One could get through this book in a weekend, I think. 5/5 ( )

Fairly simplistic science fiction folk tale with standard SF tech. Full review here. ( )