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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
223 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 15, 1983
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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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