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Captain Future: The Multiverse War
CAPTAIN FUTURE'S GREATEST ADVENTURE ROARS TO ITS BLAZING CONCLUSION!
Thrown without warning into a parallel universe where Earth has been destroyed and the solar system has been conquered by invaders from beyond the walls of spacetime, Curt Newton and his companions find themselves trapped in a timeline where everything once familiar is now different … and one of his closest friends is now the most powerful foe he will ever face!
From the moment of its arrival, the Comet finds itself locked in a transdimensional war that threatens to consume not just one universe but countless others as well, including their own. Can even Captain Future and the Futuremen persevere against an enemy that can control the energy of the Sun itself? The fate of countless worlds will the decided by the decisive battle of …THE MULTIVERSE WAR.
"(Steele) manages to keep the overall feeling faithful to Hamilton's brand of early space opera, while still writing a story that can work for the modern reader. … If you find yourself in the mood for some good ol' science fiction, you can't do much better than this."
— Peter Heck, Asimov's Science Fiction
Thrown without warning into a parallel universe where Earth has been destroyed and the solar system has been conquered by invaders from beyond the walls of spacetime, Curt Newton and his companions find themselves trapped in a timeline where everything once familiar is now different … and one of his closest friends is now the most powerful foe he will ever face!
From the moment of its arrival, the Comet finds itself locked in a transdimensional war that threatens to consume not just one universe but countless others as well, including their own. Can even Captain Future and the Futuremen persevere against an enemy that can control the energy of the Sun itself? The fate of countless worlds will the decided by the decisive battle of …THE MULTIVERSE WAR.
"(Steele) manages to keep the overall feeling faithful to Hamilton's brand of early space opera, while still writing a story that can work for the modern reader. … If you find yourself in the mood for some good ol' science fiction, you can't do much better than this."
— Peter Heck, Asimov's Science Fiction
214 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 8, 2025
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October 2, 2025
The Multiverse War is the seventh book in Allen Steele's Captain Future reboot series; it picks up just at the end of the previous book, Lost Apollo, and ends without leaving any threads dangling or cliffs hanging. It's a fun pulp space opera, and a fine homage/pastiche of/to the original mostly-Hamilton classic stories which appeared 1940-'51. It doesn't have the polished dialog, scientific precision, and nuanced characters from Steele's Coyote or Near-Space stories, but it's a fast-paced pulp adventure with interior consistency, old-fashioned good guys and bad guys (that do tend to blur a bit this time around), and a remarkable amount of charm. Unfortunately, it has a lot of typos in the text, and I wish the publisher would have sent it to a careful line editor because of the missing or wrong words. I liked the vibrant Ron Miller cover, and though I mostly liked the interior illustrations (or at least the idea of them), I thought Joan looked more Tim Curry or The Crow than a pulp heroine. No spoilers here but remember when you have lots of alternate universes you can have lots of alternate characters, too. It's another grand adventure for Curt, Grag, Otho, Brain, and Joan, with a few fun Easter Eggs for old time fans like me.
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