Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds [Import] [Paperback]

Brian Daley (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Grafton; paperback / softback edition (1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0586206779
• ISBN-13: 978-0586206775
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,044,611 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended, June 7, 2000

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Ken Coar "Rodent of Unusual Size" (in 1.0 AU Solar orbit) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds: (Alacrity FitzHugh and Hobart Floyt, No 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

Book 1 of the chronicles of Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh

Absolutely hilarious. Daley describes a fairly distant future in which I wouldn't mind living, complete with aliens, ray-guns, Galactic gypsies, flying bicycles, starships, automatic taxidermy machines, villains, heroes, and True Love. The main characters are a mousy little bureaucrat from isolationist Earth and a chaotic and flamboyant ABS (Able-Bodied Starman). Just good fun; very hard to put down. One of my absolute favourites when I want a laugh.

Rated 'G'; I consider the content of this book to be suitable reading for all ages.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous! Brian Daley was the best...., April 11, 2002

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J. Irvin "turambar_1" (Grove City, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds: (Alacrity FitzHugh and Hobart Floyt, No 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

I've read almost all Brian Daley books (yeah, he's my fav author), and these come very close to my favorite (although I'm more of a fantasy fan than a sci fi fan; long live Coramonde!). While there have been a zillion alien invasion stories, this is a story about a man who lives on Earth in a post-alien invasion society where the aliens lost, but managed to totally decimate Earth: all major cities are gone, most major landmarks are gone, almost everything that we would remember is absolutely gone...Earth has fallen back on itself, wallowing in their past glory, with a xenophobic, communist/socialist government that, and it is the birthplace of outer space people that are no longer quite "human," (like Alacrity) who brave anti-alien sentiments to make a pilgrimage back to their homeworld. In the case of Alacrity, who came to look at what's left of Earth's natural beauty, he gets framed for a murder of an Earther so he can escort Hobart Floyt, Earth functionary third class, on a mission to a distant planet to accept an inheritance from a recently deceased ruler of a 12(?) planet empire. Along the way, they survive several assassination attempts, many close calls, and a reporter who uses what she learns from talks with Alacrity and Hobart to write several books about fictional adventures that they are supposed to have, that Hobart would call "penny dreadfuls" (including "Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh in the Castle of the Death Addicts," "Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh Versus the Brain Eaters of the Galactic Rim," and "Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh Challenge the Amazon Slave Women of the Supernova"). Sound theories and speculations about the future that is interesting to think about (especially how popular Monopoly still is! Many breakabouts carry around personal tokens to use, and there's a big entry fee that goes into the jackpot for the winner). Top-notch materiel!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent space opera, October 25, 1999

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This review is from: Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds: (Alacrity FitzHugh and Hobart Floyt, No 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is one of my all time favorites. Brian Daley creates a wonderfully large sci-fi world that makes you want to know more about it. The plot quickly draws you in with Daley's in depth style. While not only being enjoyable in its self, it sets up the next book in the series very well (which is also excellent). If you like Lois McMasters Bujold, you'll love this.