During the most chaotic year of his young life, Wilf Ansor Brim, Helmsman of the Imperial Galactic Fleet, faces many challenges while he comes to terms with his love for Princess Margot. Advertising in most science fiction magazines. Original.
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Bill Baldwin is the author of the Best-Selling Helmsman series and Canby’s Legion. He is a graduate of The Mercersburg Academy and the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a B.A. in Journalism and a Master of Letters degree. He served as a Lieutenant at the U.S. Air Force Missile Test Center, Foreign Technology Division, Cape Canaveral, Florida, supporting Project Mercury as Chief of the Reports Division. Later, Baldwin served as a contractor for the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, where he contributed to as well as managed the writing group handling Astronaut public relations and technical presentations throughout the Gemini and early Apollo programs. Baldwin later worked as a Senior (lead) Presentations Writer for Burroughs Corporation (now UNISYS), and as a computer programmer at the Defense and Space Division of Burroughs.
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This review is from: Galactic Convoy (The Helmsman, 2) (Hardcover)
As of November, 2003 this book has been published in a new directors cut edition, in hardback. The original book was one of my favorite of all time, and this time Bill Baldwin has greatly imporved the story, cleaning up a few loose ends and fleshing out some of the other parts of the story. I have always felt this was the best book of the series and this version is even better! In this book, Wilf, and his comrades Uris, Barbousse and the rest are in a new starship, helping to guard convoys bringing needed suppies to a giant base in another part of the universe, and both the convoys and the base are under constant attack by Nergol Triannic's evil forces. It strikes me as if based on the British convoys to beleagured Malta in the Med in WWII. An exciting story, lots of combat, a new romantic interest, new shipmates, just a dang good entertaining fantasy/scifi novel!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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An upbeat, galaxy-spanning adventure,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Galactic Convoy (The Helmsman, 2) (Hardcover)
The second novel in Bill Baldwin's heady sci-fi "Helmsman Saga", Galactic Convoy is an action-packed saga filled from cover to cover with intrigue, deadly spaceship battles, and abiding bonds of friendship forged through troubled times. An upbeat, galaxy-spanning adventure, as thrilling as the futuristic cover art by Hugo Award winning author/artist Ron Miller, Galactic Convoy documents Bill Baldwin as a master of the science fiction action/adventure genre and a welcome read for any and all sci-fi enthusiasts!
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The Helmsman begins his career in fine fashion.,
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This review is from: Galactic Convoy (Paperback)
In the fine tradition of C.S. Forester, Baldwin begins to flesh out the career of Lt Wilf Brim, Imperial Fleet. Started in 'The Helmsman' Baldwin crafts the tale of Wilf's rise in fortune as a fleet officer. Baldwin builds Brim's character carefully and gives a good leg up on the plot at the same time. Though the plot is simplistic, it reflects the time honored tale of men at sea (or space) going into 'harms way' for the sake of others. Though occasionally laced with mature discriptions of Wilf's love life, the story line is a good balance between discriptive technical displays of flying a starship and living in the Imperial Fleet. This is a good read and a good foundation for the continuing saga of the Helmsman
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