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Pirates of the Thunder (Rings of the Master #2)
Hawks had refused to help the ambitious Lazlo Chen in his quest to find the five gold rings that could break Master System's hold over humankind -- and that refusal had landed him on the deadly prison planet Melchior.
But when Hawks and some fellow prisoners engineered a bold escape, it seemed almost too easy. Hawks guessed that Chen was pulling the strings, but he couldn't...more
But when Hawks and some fellow prisoners engineered a bold escape, it seemed almost too easy. Hawks guessed that Chen was pulling the strings, but he couldn't...more
Mass Market Paperback, 245 pages
Published
February 12th 1987
by Del Rey
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Just saw this series and it has been years but I was in the mood... so a marathon re-read of the series ensued... and it was fabulous!
We start out many years in the future... Earth is under control of Master System, a computer. The population has been culled, changed, the universe seeded with our oddly changed descendants, and what is left on Earth has been reduced to limited populations of racially distinct groups isolated in area as well as era.
Each generation any who have the potential to cha...more
We start out many years in the future... Earth is under control of Master System, a computer. The population has been culled, changed, the universe seeded with our oddly changed descendants, and what is left on Earth has been reduced to limited populations of racially distinct groups isolated in area as well as era.
Each generation any who have the potential to cha...more
My review for "Pirates of the Thunder": “Don’t judge a book by the cover” I’m told, but that’s what I did many years ago with this one and it was a good choice. This was the first “real” out-of-high-school book I can remember purchasing. I was at Safeway and saw it on the rack and decided I’d give it a try, because it “looks” cool. Well, it was great, but I had to stop a couple chapters into it and go to the book store to find the book before it in the series so I knew how the story began (Didn’...more
Voltron Assemble!
That is what this felt like. Disparate groups of people being forced together to survive. And lots of rambling about how there must be some other force helping the rebels.
This series is not nearly as fun and enjoyable as The Four Lords of the Diamond
That is what this felt like. Disparate groups of people being forced together to survive. And lots of rambling about how there must be some other force helping the rebels.
This series is not nearly as fun and enjoyable as The Four Lords of the Diamond
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Hawk is crazy, not too chaotic, but still pretty dang reckless
I started the series at this book, not great but by no means awful. Definitely dated science fiction, but the commentary on human nature still applies.
See what I said on "Lords of the Middle Dark".
Grade B-. Book Rm2.
10
Awesome.
In this book, our heroes make it out into deep space. They make contacts among the freebooters, a community of space pirate types who fly under Master System's radar. Our heroes have some successes, including stealing some stuff they need and visiting a few planets, but their real quest for the secret gold rings hasn't yet begun. I'm really enjoying reading these again. Can't wait to move on to book 3!
This isn't the greatest sci-fi series but has some nice twists. I would recommend to any sci-fi fan. It is easy to tell that it was written in the Star War era of the eighties.
Book 2 in the series. Find it! Read it! :-)
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Besides being a science fiction author, Jack Laurence Chalker was a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for a time, a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association, and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Some of his books said that he was born in Norfolk, Virginia although he later claimed that was a mistake.
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