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Cargando... The Icarus Hunt (1999 original; edición 2000)por Timothy Zahn
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An exciting murder mystery wrapped in a space trucker story with a lot of Star Wars flavor. Highlights include aliens who resemble the Venetian Medicis, reasonable interstellar politics, and a spaceship that starts out pretty familiar and ends up completely unique. There are a couple of unexpected twists in this story, as is typical for a murder mystery, but what I appreciated about them the most is that they're very well foreshadowed. I could tell there was something up with some of the details of the story so getting the twists revealed was very satisfying. Zahn, Timothy. The Icarus Hunt. Bantam, 1999. I do not have the Star Wars habit, so I have missed much of Timothy Zahn’s work. Fortunately, that is not all he writes, and I was happy to catch up with The Icarus Hunt. It is a classic detective fiction space opera combo—albeit with a lot of Star Wars tropes. I doubt it is an accident that the protagonist shares a lot in common with Han Solo, including a hot starship, a smuggling gig, and an alien buddy. We have some inventive aliens that would be right at home in the Star Wars canteen and an heiress who probably looks a lot like Princess Leia. Despite all the Star Wars echoes, the labyrinthian plot is engagingly noir, with a fun McGuffin. I should note that one reviewer was put off by anachronistic wired technology and I admit that I was thrown back into the twentieth century when a “phone” buzzes in someone’s pocket. At least some starship pilots have implants. Three and a half stars rounded up to four just cuz I like detectives in space. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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From Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of two landmark Star Wars® series, comes annbsp;nbsp;original new tale featuring a renegade space pilot, his unusual alien partner, and an unknown cargo that can change the course of galactic history. Jordan McKell has a problem with authority. Unfortunately for him, the iron-fisted authority of the powerful Patthaaunutth controls virtually every aspect of galactic shipping. In order to survive, Jordan ekes out a living dabbling in interstellar smuggling for outlaw concerns that represent the last vestiges of free trade in the galaxy. So when Jordan and his partner, Ixil--an alien with two ferret-like "outhunters" linked to his neural system--are hired by a mysterious gentleman to fly a ship and its special cargo to Earth, they jump at the job. Caution has never been one of Jordan's strong suits. But this time he may have taken on more than even he can handle. The ship, Icarus, turns out to be a ramshackle hulk, the ragtag crew literally picked up off the street, and the cargo so secret, it's sealed in a special container that takes up most of the cramped and ill-designed ship. As if that weren't bad enough, it looks like the authorities already suspect something is afoot, there's a saboteur aboard, and the Icarus appears to be shaking apart at the seams. It doesn't seem as if things could get any worse. That is, until a beautiful crew member helps McKell uncover the true nature of the cargo he's carrying. With his enemies closing in on the lumbering Icarus, the unknown saboteur still aboard, and authorities on Earth pressured to turn them in, McKell and Ixil become fugitives. Their only chance is to stay one step ahead of their pursuers as they try to make it home. A bold and epic novel filled with unrelenting action and a good dose of humor, The Icarus Hunt is a wild hyperspace romp through the galaxy. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Nothing deep here, just a fun little action adventure.
library book read 12/19/2023 ( )