This was a different book from Gregory Kern's and Captain Kennedy. Murders are happening on earth. Normal, influential, persons are turning crazy and killing everyone sorrounding them.Cap Kennedy and his gang goes from Terra to a prison planet and then to confront an evil scientist.The beginning of ...
This book is a rough adaptation of the first four episodes of the classic science fiction TV series Space: 1999. While it is very well written, it doesn't really do any of the four episodes much justice, given the relatively short length of the book; the episode "Black Sun" barely gets two chapters....
the best pulp approaches its material with straight face. characters may be sarcastic, characterization may be stylized and even cartoonish, but the tale itself is one of complete seriousness - despite the potential goofiness, the clichés, the pulpiness. the best pulp is utterly sincere. and so it i...
In The Quillian Sector, Dumarest finds himself in the titular neighborhood in space - supposedly known for its many unpredictable factors. Those factors don't really play into the story much, though. In it, the Cyclan (cyborgs who are after Dumarest cause he knows some of their secrets) have hired a...
I'd never heard of Tubb, but I got 5 of his books in a boxlot of DAW pbs that I picked up, oh, a few years ago now. Apparently, he was reasonably well-known (more so in England) for this series, 'Dumarest' which numbers 32(!) books. 'Jondelle' is #10, but they're all stand-alone stories.Based on rea...
In Zenya, Our Hero, Dumarest, meets a beautiful girl in a library to lures him with the idea that her wealthy father may know something of the location of his homeworld, the fabled Terra. But it is, of course, a trap, and the wealthy-but-crazed man simply traps him into going and finding a wayward r...
I read most of this series when I was a teenager. It's very cheesy, 80s sci-fi, fun to read, but not great literature and certainly not very original; indeed, it's more like a pulp adventure that resembled a TV series more than anything else. Dumarest is your typical super-competent action hero who ...
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