The Galactiad

Cap Kennedy #17

by Gregory Kern

When a team of athletes and scientists from Earth enter the interplanetary Olympic Games, they find themselves fighting for the survival of humanity

Genres: Science Fiction

128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 5, 1983

About the author

Gregory Kern is a pseudonym of E.C. Tubb.

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first two thirds of this was the slowest of the Kern "Cap Kennedy" stories that I've yet read. The basic idea is that a super powerful alien race has determined that Earth has to win the "Galactiad," which is a space Olympics, or be destroyed. The first two-thirds of the book are all about positioning and politics and I almost put the book down. In the last third, the actual competition starts and we get to see Cap Kennedy in action. This brought back the action adventure aspects missing in the early part and I liked it quite a lot. That earned back a star from me.

[Pat Belford · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dull