Glory's People [Mass Market Paperback]

Alfred Coppel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 1997

Threatened by an interstellar menace from beyond the galaxy, the great Goldenwing ship, Gloria Coelis, with her crew of Wired starmen and cats, heads to the advanced planet Yamato to enlist the aid of the greatest military power in the human galaxy. Will they be believed? What if the only proof is death.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The crew of the spaceship Glory returns for further far-future interstellar adventure in this third book of Coppel's Goldenwing series (after Glory's War, 1995). Desperate for allies to stand with them against the bizarre energy alien they call "The Terror," Captain Duncan Kr and his crew appeal for help to the people of Yamato, a world steeped in the tradition and culture of feudal Japan. Even as Shogun Minamoto no Kami agrees to consider the request, however, an attempt on the Starman's life makes it clear that not everyone on Yamato is willing to assist the gaijin. With the help of Glory's empathic cats, the crew attempts to ferret out their enemies, but the imminent arrival of the Terror forces all sides to ignore politics for the moment and focus on survival. The plot moves slowly, with some repetition of background detail. But Coppel, who is best known for his espionage thrillers (The Apocalpyse Brigade, etc.), has been publishing SF steadily since 1947. With that deep experience, he can't help but spin out a tale that, though it gets no award for originality, will engage readers with its easygoing style and suitably soap-operatic scale.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

Glory, a 23rd-century sailing ship among the stars, travels to the planet Yamato to escape the Terror it fled in Book 2 of this series. Her crew of humans, sentient cats, and monkeys sense the Terror's pursuit and stand to fight it aided by some of the planet's residents, Japanese colonizers who have transplanted their customs and culture. As each cat adopts a human companion, they communicate telepathically with each other and with the ship. Told from both the cats' and the humans' perspectives, this is a humanized Tailchaser's Song in space. Recommended for sf collections.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Tor Science Fiction (July 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812523954
• ISBN-13: 978-0812523959
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,720,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars unique book and series -- with intelligent cats, August 18, 2005

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This review is from: Glory's People (Mass Market Paperback)

This underrated series is the best explication of feline intelligence I have seen. The story is exciting, the characters are well done, and the cats..... surgically enhanced so they can link with their human friends and the ship's computer, "the great queen who is not alive," the cats become more and more important to the story and the characters as the books progress. This volume, the third in the series, makes the cats'development a much more important part of the story than the other two. Without giving any of the story away, you'll love reading these --- get all three!