Robert Dennys
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If you treat the Parker Interstellar Travels books like an adventure serial rather than standalone novels, this is a respectable "season opener" episode. It provides some engaging novelties in the exploration of a new alien world, and enough character bits and action to balance the freight of table-setting exposition-dumps. However, it closes painfully abruptly, settling for kicking cans down the road to the sequels. It also suffers from some editing oversights (e.g, transposed character names) that are even more embarassing than those seen in previous titles in the series. I am hooked enough to keep reading, but I am chafing against the variable quality.
Mark Pictor
I've liked every McCloskey book I have read. They may be relatively short, but they're interesting. He's good at imagining and describing alien technology, and exceptional at describing alien thought processes that are believable yet far more alien than any I've read about elsewhere.
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