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Chargement... [SERRANO LEGACY] by (Author)Moon, Elizabeth on Dec-07-06par Elizabeth Moon
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I am a big fan of fantasy and science fiction novels especially if they are long and have several books in the series. I really enjoy a series of books that I can immerse myself in and I first picked up an Elizabeth Moon novel because it was long and part of a multi-novel series. I continue to read her books because I find them engrossing and highly enjoyable. This is a SciFi Book Club omnibus edition of the first 3 of the Familias Regnant series. The collection is named after the main character, former regular navy captain Heris Serrano. Heris was forced out of the space navy after an unfortunate incident and has taken a new job as the captain of a private yacht owned by a spinster aunt of one of the primary families. Immediately, small inconsistencies and incidents that are the legacy of the previous captain start to pop up, and Heris is thrown back into action more appropriate for the real navy. It doesn't hurt that she immediately starts collecting some of the best of her former navy crew. Like every other Elizabeth Moon book I've read, this is very well written, though Moon has a tendency to force her characters (and the plot) to 'slog through the mud'. In this case, writing about what daily life on a space yacht might be like isn't really all that interesting and takes up too much of the book. Like many of her books, this results in 3 novels that are short on action. There's action in every book, just not much, proportionally. As always she's created interesting, quirky characters that tend to be female. Like most of her sci-fi, its light on the 'science', this is by no means hard sf. Also, unlike the cover blurb, this isn't space opera either. I realize the definition of 'space opera' has morphed a bit since the days of E. E. Smith, but there aren't even any aliens! This was still a good read, but if you pick it up don't expect blazing phasers and BEM's, just enjoy a well written story. As a political space opera, this was fine but not outstanding. I do appreciate the strong female characters, and particularly the positive portrayal of a woman in her late 60s-early 70s rather than the usual 20s-and-hot. The part I found most baffling was the continuous digressions about... foxhunting. Yeah, like with horses. Don't get me wrong, I like horses fine, but it felt like the "spin" on the genre that never really fit or was entirely critical to the plot. Not bad for a big cheap three-in-one trade paperback, but not something I'll go back to soon.
The Heris Serrano books — Hunting Party, Sporting Chance, and Winning Colours,are forever impressed in my mind as Foxhunting! In! Spaaaaaaaace! These three books form a standalone trilogy in Moon’s larger Familias Regnant universe This omnibus is entertainingly full of bizarre family dynamics, people with strange and archaic hobbies, a touch of intrigue, and plenty of space and shipboard action. I can never quite get the hang of the cultural dynamics of the Familias Regnant, because we spend so much time in the company of the very upper crust, or the somewhat insulated echelons of the military, but the mannered, slightly Victorian air of plutocracy with noblesse obligé is fascinating to read. Appartient à la sérieHeris Serrano (Omnibus 1-3) ContientSporting Chance (Part 2 of 2) par Elizabeth Moon (indirect) Sporting Chance (Part 1 of 2) par Elizabeth Moon (indirect) Serrano Legacy - Winning Colors, Part 2 par Elizabeth Moon (indirect) Winning Colors, Part 1 par Elizabeth Moon (indirect)
Fleet officer Heris Serrano came from a family of Fleet officers, so when a lying superior forced her to resign, life lost all meaning. To pay the bills, she became Captain of a rich old lady's interstellar luxury yacht, adding insult to injury. But Cecelia, the rich old lady, had more brains than most admirals Heris had known, and before it was all over, Heris would have a chance to rejoin her beloved space navy -- if she could manage to stop an invading armada. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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- there are echoes of Vorkosigan novels (these books are not really playing in the same league though, imho)
- there is a bit of "Downton Abbey in space" :))) (the aunts, oh, the aunts!)
- lots of badass female characters (kudos to Elizabeth Moon for letting elderly ladies be badass in sci-fi)
- starships explode
- things work out in the end
Apparently, there are four more books in this series, which is good news. ( )