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Spaceways #3
Escape from Macho
Janja and her friend, Hellfire, are trapped on the planet, Macho, by a violent rebellion and fight their way back to their spaceship with the aid of the daring Trafalgar Cuw
- GenresScience Fiction
Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1982
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Andrew J. Offutt
204 books72 followersAndrew Jefferson Offutt was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He wrote as Andrew J. Offutt, A.J. Offutt, and Andy Offut. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, had his name in all lower-case letters. His son is the author Chris Offutt.
Offutt began publishing in 1954 with the story And Gone Tomorrow in If. Despite this early sale, he didn't consider his professional life to have begun until he sold the story Blacksword to Galaxy in 1959. His first novel was Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards in 1970.
Offutt published numerous novels and short stories, including many in the Thieves World series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, which featured his best known character, the thief Hanse, also known as Shadowspawn (and, later, Chance). His Iron Lords series likewise was popular. He also wrote two series of books based on characters by Robert E. Howard, one on Howard's best known character, Conan, and one on a lesser known character, Cormac mac Art.
As an editor Offutt produced a series of five anthologies entitled Swords Against Darkness, which included the first professional sale by Charles de Lint.
Offutt also wrote a large number of pornographic works under twelve different pseudonyms, not all of them identified. Those known include John Cleve, J.X. Williams, and Jeff Douglas. His main works in this area are the science fiction Spaceways series, most of whose volumes were written in collaboration, and the historical Crusader series.
Offutt began publishing in 1954 with the story And Gone Tomorrow in If. Despite this early sale, he didn't consider his professional life to have begun until he sold the story Blacksword to Galaxy in 1959. His first novel was Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards in 1970.
Offutt published numerous novels and short stories, including many in the Thieves World series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, which featured his best known character, the thief Hanse, also known as Shadowspawn (and, later, Chance). His Iron Lords series likewise was popular. He also wrote two series of books based on characters by Robert E. Howard, one on Howard's best known character, Conan, and one on a lesser known character, Cormac mac Art.
As an editor Offutt produced a series of five anthologies entitled Swords Against Darkness, which included the first professional sale by Charles de Lint.
Offutt also wrote a large number of pornographic works under twelve different pseudonyms, not all of them identified. Those known include John Cleve, J.X. Williams, and Jeff Douglas. His main works in this area are the science fiction Spaceways series, most of whose volumes were written in collaboration, and the historical Crusader series.
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August 29, 2020
This is volume three of a nineteen volume series. I have read the first three volumes and eventually lost interest in it. I will most likely not be reading any more volumes.
May 23, 2018
It is only fair to start with an important warning but this book takes the erotica (occasionally very dark erotica) seriously and gives full descriptions of the sexual acts. Reader beware if that offends your literary sensibilities.
This is part of a pulpy sci fi erotica series from the early 1980s that mixes reasonably hard sci fi, with some quaint anachronisms (spaceships are literally navigated by putting a cassette of your choice in the machinery - hard to think of something more 1980s than that).
Actually, pretty much everything in this screams the 1980s louder than a pair of leg warmers. (Check out the central female character on the cover art and the man to her left) For many people that has a charm all of it's own. The writing style takes some getting used to as well. Nonetheless it is quite an easy read, once you settle into it. The story follows on directly from parts 1& 2 so there would be little or no point regaling you with what plot there is here. The brief version is that the central character is a humanoid alien female who gets sex trafficked in book 1. she escapes in book 2 and meets up with an all female crew of spacers who share her dislike for the man who trafficked her. They mutually agree to settle that score, in this volume they land on the eponymous world which is in revolutionary chaos and meet up with the man who caused it. the rest of the book deals with these characters learning to live with each other. This leads directly into volume 4
So the good points are the inventive and occasionally genuine sci fi elements (aliens here are NOT Star Trek people with rubber on their foreheads) the characters are more entertaining than this level of writing probably has any right to be. The massive narrative structure and yes the erotica and serious subject matter. Also it is short at 220 pages
The negatives are the difficult to get used to writing style, the fact this really does not work as a standalone and the badly dated nature of the milieu generally. It is the literary equivalent of one of those cheap but fun 1980s fantasy movies like Beastmaster or Deathstalker
This is part of a pulpy sci fi erotica series from the early 1980s that mixes reasonably hard sci fi, with some quaint anachronisms (spaceships are literally navigated by putting a cassette of your choice in the machinery - hard to think of something more 1980s than that).
Actually, pretty much everything in this screams the 1980s louder than a pair of leg warmers. (Check out the central female character on the cover art and the man to her left) For many people that has a charm all of it's own. The writing style takes some getting used to as well. Nonetheless it is quite an easy read, once you settle into it. The story follows on directly from parts 1& 2 so there would be little or no point regaling you with what plot there is here. The brief version is that the central character is a humanoid alien female who gets sex trafficked in book 1. she escapes in book 2 and meets up with an all female crew of spacers who share her dislike for the man who trafficked her. They mutually agree to settle that score, in this volume they land on the eponymous world which is in revolutionary chaos and meet up with the man who caused it. the rest of the book deals with these characters learning to live with each other. This leads directly into volume 4
So the good points are the inventive and occasionally genuine sci fi elements (aliens here are NOT Star Trek people with rubber on their foreheads) the characters are more entertaining than this level of writing probably has any right to be. The massive narrative structure and yes the erotica and serious subject matter. Also it is short at 220 pages
The negatives are the difficult to get used to writing style, the fact this really does not work as a standalone and the badly dated nature of the milieu generally. It is the literary equivalent of one of those cheap but fun 1980s fantasy movies like Beastmaster or Deathstalker
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