Brightsuit Macbear [Paperback]

L. Neil Smith (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Avon Books (Mm); First Edition edition (March 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380753243
• ISBN-13: 978-0380753246
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #907,234 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars keystrokes in the snow, April 7, 2000

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Joshua Freeman (Virginia Beach) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brightsuit Macbear (Paperback)

I am proud to be the first in about two years to review this book. A continuation on Neil's Probability Broach series, it serves as yet another reminder that inidividuals do exist, and provides hope that, in the future, they still will.

Like Robert Heinlein, Neil gives the reader more to continue for, if only in the capacity of knowledge that someone can see a bright, sterling future.

J. L. L. F.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MacBear had things to prove..., August 30, 2005

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Michael Valdivielso (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brightsuit Macbear (Paperback)

Fifteen year old Berdan Geanar was not a very happy boy. He didn't know what he wanted to do with his life, he wasn't allowed to carry a gun and his grandfather seemed to hate him. Now his grandfather had jumped ship, taking all the money and a experimental smartsuit with him. One that didn't belong to him.
Berdan decided to stop his grandfather, but doing so meant leaving the Tom Edison Maru and landing on a planet covered, from pole to pole, with jungle, dangerous animals and exotic cultures.
Set after the events in Tom Paine Maru ( which is set in the Confederacy universe) the novel is fast, fun and, like many of the author's books, about people who belive in being themselves - about TRUE freedom. The book could be red as a stand alone novel or as one part of the series.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The start of a great adventure (beginning in the middle), May 9, 1998

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Greg McBride ([e-mail]) (Ainsworth, Nebraska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brightsuit Macbear (Paperback)

L. Neil Smith again proves that rugged individualism and personal accountability are important part of anyone's life who truly wants to be free. This novel shows the trials of a young man who has been robbed of the cradle of a loving family and must find his own life through daring interstellar adventure. A great addition to the back log of Smith's books that speak well of the future and of the potential of humanity.