Kindle × Star Bridge Ú Jack Williamson
It was the greatest empire of them all spanning light years gathering in the stars with a golden net World after world start af with James E Gunn1978 no grade2017 grade CB An odd book in a couple of ways But it was good enough that I wanted to finish it I won't read it again thoughFirst it is a bit overwritten but that is mainly because of its age There is uite a bit of dissertation on made up science and uite a lot of descriptive material Both sections are discrete enough that they are easy to spot and speed through But they do need to be read for continuitySecond the story and the characters are much bigger than life making them unreal The protagonist is basically a barbarian soldier hired to do a hit The reader finds out later the hit is than simple The vast majority of people in this empire of many planets are slaves or barbarians at one level or another The hit is on one of the tiny minority who control the empire via the faster than light tube travel To sum it up it reminded me of an elite barbarian gladiator and the rest of the oppressed people taking on the royalty despite being killed off in droves As I said it was interesting enough that I wanted to find out what happens And what happens turns out to be rather complex
Jack Williamson Ú Star Bridge Book
Star BridgeTurned the harsh metallic planet of Eron into the Empire a bridge between the stars flung across the wide dark rivers of space A bizarre book to say the least An assassin is hired for a job plunging the galaxy into chaos and causing him to go on the run It starts well with the title device being an interesting piece of technology However the story has the protagonist becoming a rebel bent on changing the status uo of the galaxy There wasn't really much action the tension was blase the supporting characters very one dimensional and the pair that pop up often were too far fetched I'm glad I read one of Williamson's books but I won't be returning to this one