I have got the feeling that I have read this before,
it all seems quite familiar. It is a somewhat formulaic story with a few
interesting and original ideas in it. The action is well paced that keeps the narrative
ticking over. There are the occasional background details that show that the
author has spent a lot of time developing his wider world setting to give more
depth to this and future stories in the same environment. Might be interesting
enough to want to see how the character develops in the later stories.
‘Not only
humans who know the meaning of hate.
A technician comes through the runcible on Samarkand at a
fraction below light speed. His arrival has killed thousands and wrecked a
terraforming project. The immortal Horace Blegg sends agent Cormac to investigate,
but Cormac must resolve things without the support of the AI grid, for his
thirty years of being gridlinked has left him without humanity. He does have
Shuriken, a throwing star with a mind of its own, the ambivalent dracomen, and
Golem combat androids at his side. But Pelter, with his mercenaries and
something out of nightmare, is on his trail.
Samarkand has descended into frigid cold and sabotage is
uncovered. The prime suspect is unfortunately an alien called ‘Dragon’, which
had apparently destroyed itself twenty-seven years before the event. An alien artifact
is uncovered and its monstrous guardian is a killer. How did both of these get
where they were? Why was the runcible destroyed? Cormac must resolve all questions
and decide who is lying. He must do this while hunted by Pelter and avoiding
the ungentle attentions of the killing machine, Mr. Crane. And in the end
someone must be punished.’
No comments:
Post a Comment