The Rising

Stirling, S. M. & David B. Mattingly & James Doohan

ISBN 10: 0671877585 / ISBN 13: 9780671877583

Published by Baen Books, 1996

About this Item

Black cloth first edition is near fine in near fine jacket. Owner bookplate to ffep. Signed by Stirling to title page. ; The Flight Engineer Volume 1; 6.44 X 1.19 X 9.5 inches; 377 pages; Signed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 43620

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rising
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671877585
• ISBN 13: 9780671877583
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: David B. Mattingly
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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