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Title: Drifter by William C. Dietz ISBN: 0-441-16813-2 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: An average adventure novel
Comment: The novel has all the parts for a melodrama, i.e., the hero (an interplanetary smuggler), a heroine (the daughter of a family in danger of being forced off their planet), the villains (a mining company intent on [taking] the planet's resources), and the good guys (the heroine's family and their friends of The Chosen). It is the standard melodrama expanded to a galactic scale, with the local representative of the villains forcing his unwanted attentions on the heroine.
Pik Lando and his ship, the Tinker's Damn, have been drafted into service to smuggle a cargo of fertilizer concentrates onto the planet Angel. An unlikely cargo for a smuggler, but one that is vital for the farmers on the soil poor planet. Mega-Metals is using extreme means including murder to keep vital supplies from reaching the farmers.
After the first mission, Lando is recruited for a second, very secret mission that will undo the plans of the villains and give The Chosen possession of the planet. The conclusion of the novel is somewhat disappointing as Lando and the heroine go their separate ways. The final ending of the novel could have been deleted with no loss to the story as the novel digresses into a new tale. Perhaps the author was setting the stage for his next novel.
Rating: 4
Summary: No legion but..
Comment: While drifter is no Legion of the Damned it still is a very good book with fun characters and lots of action. Like most Dietz books this one is short and you'll propably read it in about two days (one if you have a lot of time) but short reads are nice inbetween the big books.
Rating: 5
Summary: not just GOOD
Comment: This is some of the BEST space opera. The end part serves as a mechanism to get you interested in the sequel(s) - which it did !
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Title: Drifter's War by William C. Dietz ISBN: 0441168159 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Drifter's Run by William C. Dietz ISBN: 0441168140 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Prison Planet by William C. Dietz ISBN: 1585863262 Publisher: ereads.com Pub. Date: 12 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Alien Bounty by William C. Dietz ISBN: 0441015441 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Freehold by William Dietz ISBN: 0759202060 Publisher: eReads.com Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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