The Witches of Karres (The Witches of Karres, #1) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Mar 14, 2009 Stephen rated it it was ok

Shelves: award-nominee-hugo, galactic-civilizations, humor-and-satire, rogues-and-scoundrels, science-fantasy, 1954-1969, to-re-read, bewitches-and-bewarlocks

2.5 stars. Decent but not great. It could be that since I had just finished Santiago by Mike Resnick (which I thought was fantastic) and another good Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett (Sourcery), this book suffered from the comparison between those other books. I may re-read this in the future as I seem to be in the minority of not loving this book. Still, it was fairly entertaining.

Nominee: Hugo Award Best Novel.

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May 20, 2009 Nicole rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

Young Capt Pausert is like the proverbial the duck out of water in dealing with three young women he rescues. In trying to return them to their parents after freeing them from slavery he discovers they really are members of a group he had considered urban legends. Maleen, Goth, and the Leewit direct him to their home world where he finds they are witches from the not so mythical planet Karres.
Now he finds having actually met the witches he is subject to laws concerning contact with this group an ...more

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Oct 20, 2008 Nicole rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

One of the fish out of water humour pieces. The witches are a group apart with their own travel technology and culture. The protagonist hooks up with three young witches.

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