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The author of the best-selling Igniting the Reaches presents a science-fiction thriller with a militaristic edge, featuring the ruthless Captain Sarah Blythe, who attempts to exact revenge on the Federation.
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David Drake is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the major authors of the military science fiction genre.
In the far future, the human inhabitants of Venus are menaced by a tyrannical government on Earth. Much as Elizabethan England was menaced by Spain, in fact, for this novel concludes a trilogy (Igniting the Reaches; Through the Breach) based on the career of Sir Francis Drake?not his ancestor, author Drake insists. The Englishman's futuristic incarnation, Piet Ricimer, has risen to the status of star-faring hero through his raids on Earth's interstellar colonies. This volume brings open war, as Ricimer's fleet "singes the tyrant of Earth's beard" and then defeats an outer-space armada with an arsenal that includes the unmanned, crash-diving "fireships" of the title. Most of the characterizations here lack originality, and the author's game of replaying Elizabethan history leads to some awkward world-building, tactics and weaponry. Unlike in Through the Breach, however, here the action scenes excel, perhaps because Drake forgoes that novel's first-person narration for a tougher third-person approach. A string of fine action scenes, however, isn't enough to distinguish a novel in today's action-packed SF market. Drake has done much better work, most recently in The Sharp End, and likely will again.
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Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherAce Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 044100329X
- ISBN 13 9780441003297
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages326
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