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A Gathering of Widowmakers (The Widowmaker #4) Kindle Edition

by Mike Resnick (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Jefferson Nighthawk, the original Widowmaker, is married and retired, looking forward to a peaceul old age. But when his two clones try to kill each other, he realizes that he can't turn his back on the situation -- or the fact that there is an alien menace out there that will require the combined might of all three Widowmakers, if even that is enough.
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  1. Book 4 of 4
    The Widowmaker
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    276 pages
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  4. Publication date
    May 28, 2010
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    556 KB
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Despite rather great differences among them, three of the toughest bounty hunters in the galaxy must join forces to fight an alien menace. Jefferson Nighthawk, the first and original Widowmaker of previous Resnick series, has long been retired and wants to quite literally cultivate his garden. His immediate clone, Jason Newman, is thinking of retiring under a new identity and emulating him. Jeff Nighthawk, clone of Jason, hence clone of Jefferson, is a crusader determined to protect the weak and the innocent regardless of incidental moral ambiguities--and Jason knows too much about moral ambiguities to let that pass unquestioned or unfought. Yet all three come to something of an uneasy truce, thanks to said alien menace. Resnick's usual gifts for hard-boiled space opera, including even plausible future weaponry and not too much cynicism, keep things humming toward an ending indicating possible sequels. Roland Green
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003QCIQ2S
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kirinyaga, Inc. (May 28, 2010)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 28, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 556 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 276 pages
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Michael D. Resnick

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Mike Resnick is the author of numerous science fiction novels and short stories, including Dragon America, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Amulet of Power, Mutiny, Return to Santiago, and Santiago. He is the editor of This Is My Funniest and has won five Hugo Awards and the Nebula Award. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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  • RFD
    5.0 out of 5 stars Product as described
    Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2023
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    I'm very pleased. Product is as described and delivered in a timely fashion
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  • Blue Chip
    4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Light Reading
    Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2009
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    Having read and enjoyed Resnick's Starship series (watch for Starship: Flagship due out in December 2009) I decided to give the Widowmaker series a try. Since I enjoy the feel of a hardback and apparently the first 3 in the series were only published in PBs, I started with Gathering first. I read for entertainment not for education, tho I'm not opposed to learning something along the way. This novel had a good flow to it, was not bogged down with technical jargon and held my interest from beginning to end. Time to start the first 3 in the series now; PBs here I come.
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  • Geoff Willcher
    5.0 out of 5 stars Review of A Gathering Of Widowmakers
    Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2013
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    I'm currently collecting Mike Resnick's works, but he may be writing them faster than I can buy them. I'm also studying his writing to improve my own science fiction work. This and many of his works could easily be cowboy novels or other kinds of action adventures. His focus is on the action and the dialog, not on hard science. This is good to learn from as short stories, at least mine, are dialog heavy.

    Quality of the book was perfect. It has been hard to find, so I ordered through Amazon and was please with delivery time and quality.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars As good end to a fun series.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2013
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    Enjoyed the interaction between the several different Widowmakers. Resnick did a great job of making each one distinct. A satisfying end to a good trilogy... anything more, though, would be pushing the premise a bit too far. Worth the read, but I still wish they had sold them all as one big novel.
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  • Eugene
    5.0 out of 5 stars great closing for the series
    Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2015
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    great closing for the series, reveals the origin of main characters as well as what happens when its widowmaker vs widowmaker.
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  • Richard C. Drew
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, plenty of action, nice wrap-up
    Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2007
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    Resnick delivers another great book - we get plenty of backstory, and see what really makes the Widowmaker. No fan of the series should miss this book!
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  • M. Hollingsworth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than the others
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2008
    It is a crime--a crime, I say!--that the publisher collapsed before giving this book the exposure it deserved. The original trilogy was impressive, but this book managed to top them. Resnick explores questions of identity and individuality, and also examines what it means to be Simply the Best, in a thoroughly engrossing and entertaining story.

    If you haven't read the trilogy, skip the rest of this review. There are spoilers.

    This is the book of the third clone, Jeff, but it also heavily features the original Jefferson. We also see a lot of Ito, a thoroughly competent bounty hunter who nonetheless looks like a clown when standing next to a Widowmaker--any Widowmaker. The surviving previous clone, who has changed his name to Jason, is present more as a plot device and point of comparison than as a well-developed character.

    This is fine, because Resnick is showing us extremes--the gray-haired man and the inexperienced kid, the thinker who's always stacking every odd in his favor and the doer who believes that bounty hunting involves only a few minutes of actual work. Both are extremely good, in extremely different ways. But what happens when a situation requires Jeff's superhuman reflexes *and* Jefferson's cunning?

    Some other points are also indirectly explored, such as how the Widowmaker (either of them) really feels about this Ito character who keeps following him around and saying that he serves the Widowmaker.

    We can only hope that the rights have reverted to Mr. Resnick, so that he can republish this somewhere else. Until then, if you can't get your hands on a copy, beg your local library to find one through Interlibrary Loan. After Resnick has kept you up all night, you'll be glad you did--and you may even find yourself wishing that, like Ito, you could devote your life to serving the Widowmaker.
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  • J. Westwood Chandler
    3.0 out of 5 stars ok, not as fine as old ones.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2020
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    ok, not as fine as old ones. Still readable, but lacks a little of the fire of old.
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