The Outpost (Birthright Universe) - Softcover

Resnick, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614753202 ISBN 13: 9781614753209

Publisher: WordFire Press, 2015

Synopsis

The greatest heroes in the galaxy gather in a very special tavern at the outskirts of civilization to swap tall tales about their heroic deeds until they are confronted by a war and actually have to perform acts of heroism.

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Review:

In a book that reads more like an anthology than a novel, Mike Resnick tells the kind of tall tales in which history isn't necessarily written by the winners. It's written instead by the best human, alien, and mutant storytellers this side of the Galactic Core, with a little embellishment from Willie the Bard.

At the edge of an enormous black hole on the planet Henry II, one of the Eight Henrys, rests the Outpost tavern, owned by Tomahawk. It's so far out that only heroes, villains, and adventurers "three times as big as life and twice as wide" can manage to find it. But once they do they've earned bragging rights to tell their story.

It's the kind of place where characters like Catastrophe Baker, Bet-A-World O'Grady, Cyborg de Milo, and Hurricane Smith come to hang around, swap tales, and wait for the approaching alien invasion to get close enough to bother with. However, once the aliens decimate the Navy and start to take over the Henrys, the adventurers reluctantly set off to save the universe one tall tale at a time.

Hugo and Nebula award-winner Resnick spins the stories into a novel that examines the way legend and history are created, and the philosophy that you shouldn't let the facts stand in the way of a good yarn. Fans of tall tales will love the vivid characterizations and the way Resnick shows how each character's real adventure is embellished into an even better story. --Kathie Huddleston

About the Author:

Mike Resnick is, according to Locus, the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short science fiction. He is the winner of 5 Hugo Awards (from a record 36 nominations), plus a Nebula and many other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Croatia, Poland, Catalonia, and Spain. Mike is the author of more than 70 novels, close to 300 short stories, and 3 screenplays, the editor of 42 anthologies, and is currently the editor of Galaxy’s Edge Magazine. He was the Guest of Honor at the 2012 Worldcon.

About this edition

• Publisher: WordFire Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1614753202
• ISBN 13: 9781614753209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 362