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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must-read trilogy!!!, December 29, 1998
By A Customer
The Death of Sleep and Sassinak are two of my favorite books. Sassinak and Lunzie are such great heroines. They join forces to destroy a conspiracy in Generation Warriors which is not as good as the other two books. For more about Sassinak and Lunzie and their adventures on the Planet Ireta, read Dinosaur Planet and Dinosaur Planet Survivors.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I can't see how you could hate this book!, January 11, 2004
By A Customer
This series is so great that I was able to read it all in 3 days! I have re-read it so many times I could almost tell you the plot by heart. I highly recommend this book to everyone who likes sci-fi and adventure.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
One thousand pages of mediocrity revolving around an incomprehensible plot, August 17, 2007
The science fiction trilogy is a classic and venerable form, one that has given us everything from the original Foundation books to Star Wars. But the three books collected into "The Planet Pirates" don't deserve to be entered on the list of those classic trilogies. In fact, the lack of a coherent plot, compelling conflict, or any interesting prose makes the very existence of this re-issued volume perplexing.
One of the problems is no doubt that one of the books was written by a different team than the other two, which makes it easy to introduce inconsistency. It undoubtedly also didn't help that they were written in a topsy turvy chronological order, with the middle book published first, the first book published second, and the third book published last. But whatever the logistical issues, the result is boring to the point of tears.
Read in order, the book introduces us first to Lunzie, a medic who is marooned in space and forced into hibernation for so long that her only daughter is grown when she awakes. She spends the first half of the book getting re-certified as a doctor while awaiting word of her offspring. It is here that there is also an awkwardly introduced and logically inconsistent fear of "heavworlders", humans genetically modified to live on high-g planets. (One annoying detail among many is that these humans are portrayed as huge, when they would logically be much smaller than normal.) When Lunzie locates her daughter she ventures into space again, and is once again marooned in "cold sleep", and when she awakes her daughter has moved to a different planet. Instead of chasing her down Lunzie visits her descendants, joins the military, goes on a scouting mission to a new world and is stranded in cold sleep by heavyworlders conspiring to break a vegetarian taboo. If that last bit sounds random and unmotivated, I assure you that reading the book will not make it less so.
The second book is the closest to being acceptable among the three, and tells the story of Sassinak, a great-great granddaughter of Lunzie. Her family is killed and she is sold into slavery by "planet pirates". Her escape and growth into the captain of a warship dedicated to stopping the trade did generate some interest, but not enough to overcome...
The third book, wherein Lunzie and Sass are united and form a complex plan to defeat planet piracy that involves sending a security officer on a fleet ship that just happens to have conspirators aboard, letting Sass's second in command visit his distant aunt who for some reason has vital information, and having Lunzie go to a high-g world to have sexually fraught interactions with people she is constantly afraid are going to rape her. Sass, obviously, travels to the home world of the Federation and is involved in a bar fight and a resistance movement featuring both sewers AND students. This last book is so incomprehensible, so disconnected from everything that came before, that you almost wonder if you missed something in the previous two. Why are we suddenly in the head of Ford, Sass's first officer? And Dupaynil, the intelligence agent? And who are these aliens who apparently have figured vitally into the whole picture? For all that the three books total nearly a thousand pages, the resolution is hurried and the logic so shaky as to invite disbelief.
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