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Star Commandos #7
Fire Planet
Book Seven in The Star Commandos Series
The Commandos find themselves facing an enemy more awesome than anything mere human foes could present. They are on the planet Tambora seeking information about a stolen shipment of Navy arms when they realize the volcano dominating the world’s island capital is no longer dormant. The challenges confronting them are enormous, perhaps insurmountable. They must first convince the local population, who hate and fear off-worlders far more than the natural force with which they have always lived, of that fact. Once they do, they must still struggle with the task of evacuating the very low-tech population before the inevitable and imminent irruption. Connor and Sogan remain until the very end, with the eruption in full progress, in an attempt to save three youths who concealed themselves rather than evacuate. Can they escape annihilation in the massive cataclysm?
The Commandos find themselves facing an enemy more awesome than anything mere human foes could present. They are on the planet Tambora seeking information about a stolen shipment of Navy arms when they realize the volcano dominating the world’s island capital is no longer dormant. The challenges confronting them are enormous, perhaps insurmountable. They must first convince the local population, who hate and fear off-worlders far more than the natural force with which they have always lived, of that fact. Once they do, they must still struggle with the task of evacuating the very low-tech population before the inevitable and imminent irruption. Connor and Sogan remain until the very end, with the eruption in full progress, in an attempt to save three youths who concealed themselves rather than evacuate. Can they escape annihilation in the massive cataclysm?
- GenresScience Fiction
Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1990
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January 1, 2022
Another re-read in pursuit of getting all the books republished with Speaking Volumes.
This was a fun story, very in touch with the "space opera" feel of the earliest volumes. We've got a planet settled by an Amish-like people who hate tech and therefore are VERRRRY good about sticking their heads in the sand with regard to that giaormous volcano casting shade over them every afternoon, which has to be dormant because they really need it to be.
Hint: It's not.
We have Bandit running stealth missions and stealing bits of cake from the spacers she's charmed. There's a bunch of burly space traders who could snap an I-beam in half bare-handed and become staunch allies after having their butts kicked in a tavern brawl. There's a lot of danger and a bunch of science and in the end, this is what Star Commandos should be.
This was a fun story, very in touch with the "space opera" feel of the earliest volumes. We've got a planet settled by an Amish-like people who hate tech and therefore are VERRRRY good about sticking their heads in the sand with regard to that giaormous volcano casting shade over them every afternoon, which has to be dormant because they really need it to be.
Hint: It's not.
We have Bandit running stealth missions and stealing bits of cake from the spacers she's charmed. There's a bunch of burly space traders who could snap an I-beam in half bare-handed and become staunch allies after having their butts kicked in a tavern brawl. There's a lot of danger and a bunch of science and in the end, this is what Star Commandos should be.
December 9, 2022
Islaen and Varn are definitely trouble magnets, never mind that they were sent into this situation expecting trouble. Some people just have the talent for inspiring troublemakers to make trouble and it seems that Islaen and Varn are two of those people. I just did not expect a watery paradise to explode any more than Varn expected to make friends with some people whom he would have tasked with destroying in his previous life. So many fireworks!
April 17, 2019
This whole series is a fun sci-fi romp from an author who is local to me. Worth the read!
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