Glory's War

Goldenwing Cycle #2

by Alfred Coppel

The second installment of the Goldenwing Cycle and the sequel to Glory continues the epic saga of the Wired Starmen aboard their orbiting space station, their refuge from an uninhabitable, hostile planet that once was Earth. Reprint.

Genres: Science Fiction

309 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel was an American author. He served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is known for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels.

Reviews

[Tani]

In light of my newfound commitment to DNF books that I'm not really enjoying, this one must also go. I wouldn't say it's bad. I read more than half of it, and probably would have given it two stars, so I didn't hate it. It has some interesting political predictions, and the world-building in general was intriguing at first. But the characters are all pretty generic, and I find I'm just not interested. Maybe it would work better if I'd read the first book in the series, rather than trying to jump in with this one? Unfortunately, I wasn't interested enough in the series to go hunting for the first at this late date, so here we are. I left this on my currently reading shelf for almost half of the year. It's time for it to go.

[Sir Blue · Rating 5 out of 5]

In a future where the ultimate jihad took place. Russians and arabs have decided to colonize a duel planet star system.
The ultimate star man arrives to negotiate peace. Filled with science fiction.
Sleep pods and lasa guns.
He is invaded aboard his ship.
Some are psychic. Some have fused with cat dna.
Can Duncan save the space colony.
Sort of like star wars sort of like gundam wing.
Mech suit battles.
Duncan's romance with space peasants.
Good science fiction read.

[Paul Jarzabek]

Barely readable. Slow story development. Shipboard cat life most interesting subject. Have to admit flipped through a couple of chapters.