Reviewer: S. Batten "SB" (Tasmania, Australia) - See all my reviews
One of the best space operas I've read - my only complaint is that Glen Cook never wrote a sequel.
The story revolves around a Canon Guardship (think a massive starship the size of a moon with the firepower to obliterate a star system) and the attempts to break the grip of the guardship fleet on the galaxy. Add in issues with an immortal crew now several thousand years out of step with current society, a rebellion drawing on the resources of 100's of star systems, alien empires trying to covertly topple the system, a means of rapid interstellar travel created by some unknown race in the distant past, mix them all together and you have something bigger and much better than Star Wars.
One of the best space operas I've read - my only complaint is that Glen Cook never wrote a sequel.
The story revolves around a Canon Guardship (think a massive starship the size of a moon with the firepower to obliterate a star system) and the attempts to break the grip of the guardship fleet on the galaxy. Add in issues with an immortal crew now several thousand years out of step with current society, a rebellion drawing on the resources of 100's of star systems, alien empires trying to covertly topple the system, a means of rapid interstellar travel created by some unknown race in the distant past, mix them all together and you have something bigger and much better than Star Wars.
