Hunting Party (Serrano Legacy) [Audio CD]

Elizabeth Moon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2008 | Series: Serrano Legacy

Grand space adventure by the coauthor of Sassinak and Generation Warriors. Heris, a female officer forced to resign her commission, winds up as "captain" of an interstellar luxury yacht. Being a rich old lady's hyperlight chauffer seems boring, until Heris finds herself fighting for her life against smugglers.

--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

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'A highly entertaining adventure ... thrilling' LOCUS --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Elizabeth Moon joined the US Marine Corps in 1968, reaching the rank of 1st Lieutenant during active duty. She has also earned degrees in history and biology, run for public office and been a columnist on her local newspaper. She lives near Austin, Texas with her husband and their son. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599505436
• ISBN-13: 978-1599505435
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Elizabeth Moon grew up on the Texas-Mexico border, a voracious reader and early writer. She spent much of her early years in a hardware store where nothing was in shrink-wrap or little plastic containers, and mule collars still hung on the back wall. She has a history degree from Rice University and a biology degree from the University of Texas at Austin, plus some graduate work in biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio; between the first two, she spent three years on active duty in the USMC. Her bibliography includes 20+ novels and 30+ short fiction works, nearly all in science fiction or fantasy. REMNANT POPULATION was a Hugo finalist in 1997; THE SPEED OF DARK won the Nebula Award in 2003.

When not writing, she likes to wander around taking pictures of wildlife and native plants, bake bread, eat chocolate, sing with a choir, and laugh.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Generally entertaining reading, December 29, 2000

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Sean T. Carnathan (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hunting Party (Mass Market Paperback)

Main character, Heris Serrano, is a former military starship commander, who is forced out of the service by an evil Admiral. She carries this book pretty well with solid support from secondary character, Cecelia, who is a rich, aging former champion horsewoman, with a passion for fox hunting. The riding and hunting scenes are very well done, and it appears that Moon must herself have a passion for these things. The book loses its direction in the middle when Cecelia's spoiled nephew and his foolish cronies sneak off for a picnic and find themselves in the middle of a hunt where men are the prey. The book eventually regains its footing and the ending is fairly strong, promising an interesting sequel (which I will certainly read). All in all, a pretty good book.

27 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars don't let it put you off, though, October 26, 2003

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A. Williamson (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hunting Party (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a really award-winningly terrible book, as some of the reviewers above have said, but it's probably a good idea not to let that put you off the rest of the series. I was very, very bored when I first read this and I'm glad, because if I hadn't been I wouldn't have gone on to read the others. It's probably worth reading this for the sake of completeness, but if you're short on patience skip it and move on to the later books - 2 and 3 are quite good, and 4 to 7 are excellent. It's odd that a writer who can produce the later books in the series is capable of turning out such unmitigated crap as this...how can someone who can keep you on the edge of the seat for three hundred pages truly believe anyone at all would be interested in five pages of description of engineering procedures? The many other flaws have already been mentioned - clunky prose, terrible characterisation and the bizarre feat of rendering fox-hunting even more incredibly pointless than it already is (in this book, the idle rich aristocracy of the universe have specially reconstructed the extinct fox from the genes of other animals and dedicated an entire planet to hunting it for absolutely no useful purpose whatsoever) and expecting the readers to like the characters who cheerfully engage in the 'sport'.

Also notable for containing possibly the most unintentionally disturbing passage in any book ever, when one of the intensely dislikable "heroes" finds himself trapped in a bathroom, hands tied behind his back, wishing to use the facilities. He tells us that it would do no good to yank on the waistband from behind, because - I swear I'm not making it up - it has been designed to withstand incredible forces.

I have spent the year since I first read the book wondering, on and off, exactly why *anyone* would design the waistband of a pair of trousers to withstand incredible forces. None of the possible answers has made me sleep any better at night...

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Foxhunting can be "the most dangerous game", August 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Hunting Party (Mass Market Paperback)

The first book in Elizabeth Moon's "Familias Regnant" series (and easily the best of the first three), this novel combines two of the author's interests--horsemanship and navy life--that would at first glance seem incongruous, and sprinkles liberally with Machiavellian House politics. If a would-be reader enjoyed "Sassinak" and "Generation Warriors," this is a good book to try next.

Though it may seem to some that Moon spends too much time focusing on characters who hold little interest compared to Heris, this is not merely Heris's story (as readers will find later in the series). Though it may not be evident at first, this book sets up for important events that will take place later on.