Customer Reviews

Escape Velocity

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Christopher Stasheff is engaging! Mixing political discourse in a space-cowboy setting comes across as genuine. His work serves as a reminder for today's reader to remain skeptical.

Fantastic! Christopher Stasheff has done it again; the wizard of fantasy has proved his mastery of science fiction in a fascinating reality. This explains the origins of the Gramarye colony featured in the Warlock series, complete with a few puns. I highly recommend it.

I was disappointed with this book. Perhaps becuase I did not read it first, it lacked the excitement I felt when reading "The Warlock in spite of himself." Not one of my Favorites by Christopher Stasheff.

The writing style is very choppy and too many assumptions are made of the reader. However, I like good sci-fi, and this has some good ideas in it. You will have to read the book to find out what they are, as I won't spoil it for you. Certainly a good book to inspire an RPG session (or campaign).

In summary I would say that this is a decent book, worth reading if you have some spare time and plan to read the rest of the Warlock series. I would not put it at the top of my list, except that it is very short and a quick read.

I expected so much from Stasheff. I was severely disappointed. Very boring. Put me to sleep. I'm glad he improved with the rest of the series, but if I'd gotten this one first I doubt I would have followed up.