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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Space Viking (2)
THE LAST SPACE VIKING by John F. Carr & Mike Robertson is a sequel to H. Beam Piper's science-fiction classic, Space Viking. This new novel takes place a hundred years after Lucas Trask founded the League of Civilized Worlds. Many changes have occurred in the Old Federation and King Trask's plans for a new galaxy order are brought to a sudden halt when a new power emerges from the ashes of the Old Federation. Will King Rodrik the First of Tanith be able to salvage his grandfather's dream, or become a tool of the new Mardukan Empire? Captain David Morland of the Sword-World Joyeuse might well be the last of the great Space Viking captains. He emerges at a time when the Old Federation is changing, and not for the better. All Morland wants is his own Space Viking base world to use as a place for organizing raids and trading parties into the thousands of worlds of the long-dead Federation. Generations of Space Viking marauders have taken their toll and plunder-worthy planets have declined as more and more of the Old Federation worlds have slipped into barbarism. But first, Morland has to find the right world and conquer it before he's discovered by a new power determined to end the Space Viking menace, one way or another Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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And yet Carr is the man we turn to, and see what has come forth. Carrr is suffering in his skill now. Having stretched Kalvan out so that we don't even see that heroic persona in his books any longer, he has become used to not telling a tale in a book but making the decision that all are to be series of stories. And not complete stand alone stories either.
Our hero, many long years after Lucas Trask, has a mission within his own mind, and begins to work towards it. Difficulties are placed in his way, yet never as hard to overcome as Piper presented Trask with, the death of his wife moments after they married.
Here the difficulty of being in the profession of Viking seems a little bit far fetched when the hypocritical ambition is that to setup one or more planets on a quicker return to civilization as the real money is made from living on a world capable of not only space flight, but of having ship years, just as Trask saw in the original book.
So we should have conflict, and struggle, but even with some there, again Carr wants to stretch things out, making the whole vignettes that shift you around, with terrible editing throughout. What could have been the opportunity to expand on a classic of Science Fiction, (A story I have read a dozen times) is an addition that needed dedicated readers to point out the flaws to make strong. And for the authors to hear and make corrections. This effort loses points for the lousy editing errors, and the flaws in craft. ( )