The Rising and The Privateer (Volumes 1 & 2 of The Flight Engineer)

Doohan, James; Stirling, S. M.

ISBN 10: 0671877585 / ISBN 13: 9780671877583

Published by Baen Publishing Enterprises, 1996

About this Item

Both Volumes inscribed and signed by Doohan on the title pages. Volume 1 (The Rising) in Fine condition- would be 'as new' but for a faint bit of soiling on the outer edge. Jacket in NF condition with edge wear along bottom and rubbing. Stated first printing. Volume 2 (The Privateer)- ISBN# 0671578324, October 1999, stated first printing. Book condition Near Fine+; would be 'as new' but for a bumped top corner on the front board. Jacket in Fine condition. Seller Inventory # 000822

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Rising and The Privateer (Volumes 1 & 2 ...

Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: David B. Mattingly

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

The first Ace pilot in the war against the secessionist Mollies, Peter Raeder loses his hand in battle and must face pirate raiders and his predecessor's betrayer in order to claim a new position aboard the Invincible.

Reviews:

The commercial hook to this novel, which launches not only the new line of Baen Starline titles and the line's first series, is that it also launches the fiction career of Doohan?whom most readers will recognize, if not by his name, then by his picture splashed across the novel's dust jacket. For Doohan is "Scotty" of Star Trek fame. Here, collaborating with veteran military SF writer Stirling (Drakon), he offers a far future in which the interplanetary Commonwealth is beset by Mollies, an offshoot group of religious fanatics, and their alien-anthropod allies, the Fibians. The primary object of contention is antihydrogen, used to fuel interplanetary ships. The novel introduces the series' major characters.There's Flight Engineer Peter Raeder (he of the "black-Irish good looks"), who's a Heinleinian hero, independent and competent yet neither mean nor humorless; offputting but hyperefficient Second Lieutenant Cynthia Robbins; and engineering chief Paddy Casey from New Hibernia. It also sets the stage for future volumes, offering plenty of high-tech action for fans of SF adventure, as well as a modestly satisfying central mystery that Raeder is assigned to solve. This isn't great SF, but Trekkies are likely to beam it up right off the bookstore shelves. Author tour.
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