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Title: Slave Trade by Susan Wright ISBN: 0743457633 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5
Rating: 1
Summary: Hey! There's no sex slavery in this book!
Comment: Would you think a book entitled 'Slave Trade' with a writhing naked woman in bondage on the cover is going to involve something steamy? The back cover says that the book you're holding is about humans who are kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery to aliens. I hope the author is having a good belly laugh at the expense of her hapless readers because not once in the entire book was sex more than hinted at. No, the plot concerns a young woman, Rose Rico (a completely stereotypical plucky latino) and her journey into and out of the aliens' sketchily-realized empire, leading a band of freed slaves. I blame the publisher for the misleading cover and blurb, but the author has to take full responsibility for the hackneyed plot and lack of innovation. Ms. Wright's experience as a Trek writer clearly has shaped her writing chops. The aliens' different races literally are distinguished by their different wrinkled foreheads. Technology is used as a magical plot device instead of given any realistic treatment. Come to think of it, Star Trek fans will probably love this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: First Original Fiction from Great "Star Trek" Author Sizzles
Comment: Until now Susan Wright has written several "Star Trek" novels and anthology entries, all of them thoughtful and original takes that stayed true to the voices of the franchise's beloved characters. With "Slave Trade" Susan remains among the stars, but travels into all new territory-truly where no "Trek" novel has ever gone. Casually racy, off-handedly lurid, and eyebrow-raising in its pansexuality, "Slave Trade" is the start of a weird and bizarre, but certainly fully realized science fiction odyssey. Critics of the novel are missing its subtle but always sly commentaries on our society's freedom (or lack there of) of sexual expression. Slavery to the sexual status quo, Susan seems to be saying, is merely a state of mind that can only lead to self-destruction. Rose Rico, heroine of the "Slave Trade" trilogy, is a young woman who is on a kinky journey of enlightenment that will (hopefully!) ultimately alter that status quo. My guess is that this wild trilogy will only get better and better.
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Title: Hidden in Sight (Webshifters, 3) by Julie E. Czerneda ISBN: 0756401399 Publisher: DAW Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Orphans of Earth by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0441010067 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Recycled by Selina Rosen ISBN: 1892065932 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Duke of Uranium by John Barnes ISBN: 044661081X Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dhampir by Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee ISBN: 0451459067 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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