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Chargement... Wreckers (édition 2021)par George Ellis (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreWreckers par George Ellis
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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. Tow-trucks in space. When you can invent anything you want, why on earth would you cross a Star Wars X-wing with a mustang chevy. It sounds just a ludicrous as it's described and very poorly integrated into a plot by having severla hundred years of culture stagnate and pick up the best of the 2000s rather than ever develop anything of their own. A young lad, Denver Boyd inherits his uncle's spaceship and towing business (really I was not at all convinced that spaceships will just 'break down' in space (and they'd still have momentum which isn't mentioned)). Most of the towing is managed by a major agency which has a deal with the Imperial army a hidebound set of rule followers, neither of them particularly keen on independent traders making a living. The weird ship is one of the most powerful going though, at least in terms of power/mass, and so Denver makes a good enough living. However when a chance encounter with the local pirate leader puts him in the crosshairs between all three, Denver realises he's going to have to be cleverer than usual. Not helped that I read a better, but very similar book very shortly afterwards, so the two sets of characters remain slightly jumbled. But even so this was ok ish, a bit rocky in places with a decided failure of humour in the attempts to come across as macho. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A space opera with attitude. And jokes.At 19 years old, Denver is the youngest wrecker in the verse. His only companion, other than his one-eyed cat Pirate, is an AI navigator named Gary based on classic 21st century sitcom personalities.That all changes when Denver meets Batista, a mechanic who claims to know what happened to Denver's missing father and brother.Following her information, Denver is drawn into trouble with the various forces in the galaxy - bandits, feds and rival wreckers. As complications mount and he's forced into helping different sides chase the hottest technology in the verse, Denver, once a lone wolf, collects the small crew he never knew he needed. But can he keep them alive? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Wreckers is a very readable indie space opera. Denver has inherited a spacecraft designed to rendezvous with damaged ships, repair them, or haul them to a repair facility or junkyard. His crew consists of a one-eyed cat named Pirate and a ship’s AI called Gary that tells annoying jokes from ancient sitcoms. When Denver answers a call from a federation warship, he finds himself rescuing a young woman with considerable martial arts skills. She claims to know what happened to Denver’s missing father. Action ensues. Great literature? No. A fun evening. Yep. 3.5 stars. ( )