Through the Breach - Hardcover

Drake, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0441001718 ISBN 13: 9780441001712

Publisher: Ace, 1995

Synopsis

Space pirate Piet Ricimer faces the challenge of being the first Venusian to pilot his ship through the Breach, a point of transfer between universes. By the author of Igniting the Reaches.

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This successor to Igniting the Reaches is not one of Drake's better works. Drake is usually adept at choreographing battle scenes, but here narrator Jeremy Moore's rendition of combat makes every adventure seem like Julien Sorel's walk through Waterloo in Stendhal's The Red and the Black. Moore travels with Piet Ricimer and Stephen Gregg, space pirates from Venus who, aboard the starship Oriflamme, are out to save civilization and interstellar free trade from an oppressive Earth-based government. Like most literary pirate crews, these men are as religious as they choose to be. As Ricimer says, "The real danger isn't race or religion, you know. It's the attitude that some men, some people... have to be controlled from above for their own good. One day I believe the Lord will help us defeat that idea." Yet for all the holiness of the cause, the action-far too often overshadowed by talk-is less than satisfying; among other problems. Moore, a womanizing nobleman, doesn't quite measure up to the more substantial Ricimer and Gregg, either. Drake credibly conjures up his world, but readers will be left thinking that Ricimer and Gregg-and even Moore-deserve better.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Ace
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0441001718
• ISBN 13: 9780441001712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336