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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Like its predecessors (Delta Search, etc.), Shatner's fifth interstellar adventure of teenage superman Jim Endicott mixes fast action and bold characterization with lapses in logic. After Jim and the Stone Cowboy gang escape the doomed colony ship Outward Bound in a stolen Kolumban ship, the Endeavour, along with Ur-Barrba, one of the gorilla-like Kolumbans, the first order of business is to establish the pecking order within the Cowboys and then transform them from a gang into a disciplined crew, with Jim as the captain, naturally. Jim later discovers that the Kolumbans are peddling lethal ship-destroying drugs as agents for another alien race, the Communers. On their home planet, the Kolumbans barely change sides in time to save Endeavour and her people from the Communers' mastery of cloning. But Jim now understands that the Communers are also behind the Pleb Psychosis on Earth, which may in turn lead him to his destined confrontation with the mysterious Delta. The series' affinity to both Star Wars and Dune is abundantly clear, while ragged transitions leave many episodes undeveloped. The plot seems to be tying itself into one vast intergalactic conspiracy on which the Fate of Humanity hinges, a familiar SF theme, but the author's less than sophisticated handling will go over better with young adults and Trekkies than with more serious readers of the genre.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-In this fifth installment in the series, 40 gang members-teens and younger kids who had hijacked the spaceship of intergalactic drug suppliers in the previous book-have sworn reluctant allegiance to young Jim Endicott. The only gang member from a middle-class background and the only one with pilot training, Jim must first earn the respect of an anarchic group of rebels and then learn how to lead them. He has resolved to trace the drug-which turns humans into homicidal maniacs-back to its planetary source and put a stop to its trafficking. Although the original plan is simply to destroy the planet, the solution proves more complex, and leaves readers ready for a sequel. Shatner handles his characters well; he shows a little of what had turned them into misfits, and then takes them through some surprising turns of character development as they respond, mostly well, to challenges and events in their struggle to save the human race. This story of teens at their best and their worst is set against a future society in which humans are just in the process of bursting upon a universe already peopled with other sentient species. In the spirit of old-fashioned pulp sci-fi, there is plenty of action and highly colored prose, while the gang politics and personal challenges should interest modern teens. A brief bibliography points the way to nonfiction about both space colonization and gang life.
Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library,
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
See all Editorial Reviews
Like its predecessors (Delta Search, etc.), Shatner's fifth interstellar adventure of teenage superman Jim Endicott mixes fast action and bold characterization with lapses in logic. After Jim and the Stone Cowboy gang escape the doomed colony ship Outward Bound in a stolen Kolumban ship, the Endeavour, along with Ur-Barrba, one of the gorilla-like Kolumbans, the first order of business is to establish the pecking order within the Cowboys and then transform them from a gang into a disciplined crew, with Jim as the captain, naturally. Jim later discovers that the Kolumbans are peddling lethal ship-destroying drugs as agents for another alien race, the Communers. On their home planet, the Kolumbans barely change sides in time to save Endeavour and her people from the Communers' mastery of cloning. But Jim now understands that the Communers are also behind the Pleb Psychosis on Earth, which may in turn lead him to his destined confrontation with the mysterious Delta. The series' affinity to both Star Wars and Dune is abundantly clear, while ragged transitions leave many episodes undeveloped. The plot seems to be tying itself into one vast intergalactic conspiracy on which the Fate of Humanity hinges, a familiar SF theme, but the author's less than sophisticated handling will go over better with young adults and Trekkies than with more serious readers of the genre.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-In this fifth installment in the series, 40 gang members-teens and younger kids who had hijacked the spaceship of intergalactic drug suppliers in the previous book-have sworn reluctant allegiance to young Jim Endicott. The only gang member from a middle-class background and the only one with pilot training, Jim must first earn the respect of an anarchic group of rebels and then learn how to lead them. He has resolved to trace the drug-which turns humans into homicidal maniacs-back to its planetary source and put a stop to its trafficking. Although the original plan is simply to destroy the planet, the solution proves more complex, and leaves readers ready for a sequel. Shatner handles his characters well; he shows a little of what had turned them into misfits, and then takes them through some surprising turns of character development as they respond, mostly well, to challenges and events in their struggle to save the human race. This story of teens at their best and their worst is set against a future society in which humans are just in the process of bursting upon a universe already peopled with other sentient species. In the spirit of old-fashioned pulp sci-fi, there is plenty of action and highly colored prose, while the gang politics and personal challenges should interest modern teens. A brief bibliography points the way to nonfiction about both space colonization and gang life.
Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library,
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
See all Editorial Reviews
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