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Star Rigger's Way

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I am a big fan of Jeffrey A. Carver's Chaos Chronicles. This was my first flight into his Star Rigger universe. The "rigging" premise is interesting enough that I will be reading some of the other rigger books soon, I have hopes that they are better than Star Rigger's Way. I was disappointed by the ending, some characters changed for the better, some changed for the worse, and the changes seemed to be out of convenience to the author and not necessarily fitting with whatever we had learned previously about the characters. The notion that people change and no longer "fit" after being years apart is true to life, it just does not seem like an idea worthy of being *the* plot element for a story.

Star-Rigger Gev Carlyle found himself alone on a spaceship where all the other riggers had been killed by a space anomaly and unable to get the ship home by himself till he stumbled across someone else also stranded.

After reading _Eternity's End_ by this same author I found this book a disappointment. Although it must be said that this book dovetails into that one with certain sequences. I nevertheless found it hard to warm to Gev who seemed slightly crazed throughout this entire book with his obsessive attempt to re-create a past already lost to him. Its easy to see from this book how much this author has improved over the years from this rather simple SF story to his much more rich _Eternity's End_ offering.

Star Rigger's Way is a story of a pilot and the ship he guides through intersteller space by a mind enhanced guidance system. Beyond the space and science references, the story reads much like any other man & ship story, be it in space or ocean.

A little on the pyscodelic side, Star Rigger's way is an easy read and would make a good summer beach book.