Reviewer Praise for SECRET AGENTS of the GALAXY
Our own Declan Finn posts a review of STARQUEST volume II: SECRET AGENTS of the GALAXY.
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Remember how the now infamous Star Wars prequel trilogy tried to handle politics, leading to some odd conversations about trade embargos in what should have been formatted like a Flash Gordon serial? Now imagine of those conversations made sense, and they were basically political chess, with moves and countermoves … and an irate Shine Maiden knocking over the chess board somewhere in the middle.
It’s all very well done. The narrative is almost poetry. Like with the Patrick O’Brian Master and Commander novels, you could get lost enough on the sea of words that you might miss a detail. But it’s so well written, you don’t mind rereading. Surprisingly, there are as many rules and regs around the secret agents of the galaxy as the standard Honor Harrington novel.
And the last hundred pages turn into a Flash Gordon serial, complete with Megalodon sharks underneath the trap doors in the floor.
Thankfully, this cliff-hanger is less annoying than book one’s was.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
