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The Fixer #6
Head Space
It takes a brave soul to mess with Dockside.
Roland Tankowicz has made a career out of teaching this lesson, and the galaxy is starting to notice. Yet despite filling entire graveyards with corporate raiders, pirates, criminal organizations, and the occasional marauding cybernetic psychopath, somebody out there still thinks the lucrative district is worth harassing.
Someone is funding drug dealers, pimps, smugglers, and other scumbags, then sending them to Dockside faster than everybody’s least-favorite army-surplus cyborg can kick them out. Before Roland and his team can start rounding up suspects, a terrifying revelation about one of his former teammates raises the stakes higher than they’ve ever been.
Soldiers, spies, mercenaries and pirates converge on New Boston’s most famous fixer as he begins to unravel the plot the only way he knows how: With his fists.
Roland must take the fight to a lawless section of deep space and challenge a strange new enemy on his own turf. Lucia will face her darkest moment as well, as the past and future combine in a trial that will forever cement what she has become.
Has Roland truly outgrown his days as a mindless war machine? Can Lucia accept the weight of leadership without the crush of fear dragging her down? Were the Golems just another super-soldier program, or is something even more sinister at play?
This time it’s not about money, or power, or even revenge. It’s about the right to live, to grow, and to become what you were meant to be. This time, the battle is over
HEAD SPACE.
Roland Tankowicz has made a career out of teaching this lesson, and the galaxy is starting to notice. Yet despite filling entire graveyards with corporate raiders, pirates, criminal organizations, and the occasional marauding cybernetic psychopath, somebody out there still thinks the lucrative district is worth harassing.
Someone is funding drug dealers, pimps, smugglers, and other scumbags, then sending them to Dockside faster than everybody’s least-favorite army-surplus cyborg can kick them out. Before Roland and his team can start rounding up suspects, a terrifying revelation about one of his former teammates raises the stakes higher than they’ve ever been.
Soldiers, spies, mercenaries and pirates converge on New Boston’s most famous fixer as he begins to unravel the plot the only way he knows how: With his fists.
Roland must take the fight to a lawless section of deep space and challenge a strange new enemy on his own turf. Lucia will face her darkest moment as well, as the past and future combine in a trial that will forever cement what she has become.
Has Roland truly outgrown his days as a mindless war machine? Can Lucia accept the weight of leadership without the crush of fear dragging her down? Were the Golems just another super-soldier program, or is something even more sinister at play?
This time it’s not about money, or power, or even revenge. It’s about the right to live, to grow, and to become what you were meant to be. This time, the battle is over
HEAD SPACE.
- GenresScience FictionCyberpunk
356 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 1, 2019
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August 14, 2021
The pattern of these books is always:
1) Roland easily defeats a joke enemy.
2) Roland pretty easily defeats a secondary opponent.
3) Roland gets out-plotted and ambushed by the real enemy, who almost kills him before he defeats it.
The writing is pretty good (although unnecessarily gloomy IMO), but the scripting is too rote. Tension is low because we know nothing will be resolved until the drawn-out last battle is finished. There's no surprise--I know that the bad guy is getting away if they're fighting 70% of the way through the book.
There are also a lot of weapons that Roland and his team should have access to which would be dispositive in a lot of fights, but never show up, or are only used by people who can't maximize them. (Like, why doesn't Lucia, who is super-fast but not strong, use the Sasori blade that cuts through everything? Why doesn't Roland, who is ridiculously strong, and heavy enough to handle the recoil, use any of the mach-30+ heavy railguns that keep showing up?)
I'm being harsh on this series because it has the potential to be so good. The author's vision of the future is both plausible and interesting. The characters are a lot of fun (I think Lucia needs more screen-time). But it's hard to get over the way the Fixer is so lauded and yet so constantly on his heels.
1) Roland easily defeats a joke enemy.
2) Roland pretty easily defeats a secondary opponent.
3) Roland gets out-plotted and ambushed by the real enemy, who almost kills him before he defeats it.
The writing is pretty good (although unnecessarily gloomy IMO), but the scripting is too rote. Tension is low because we know nothing will be resolved until the drawn-out last battle is finished. There's no surprise--I know that the bad guy is getting away if they're fighting 70% of the way through the book.
There are also a lot of weapons that Roland and his team should have access to which would be dispositive in a lot of fights, but never show up, or are only used by people who can't maximize them. (Like, why doesn't Lucia, who is super-fast but not strong, use the Sasori blade that cuts through everything? Why doesn't Roland, who is ridiculously strong, and heavy enough to handle the recoil, use any of the mach-30+ heavy railguns that keep showing up?)
I'm being harsh on this series because it has the potential to be so good. The author's vision of the future is both plausible and interesting. The characters are a lot of fun (I think Lucia needs more screen-time). But it's hard to get over the way the Fixer is so lauded and yet so constantly on his heels.
March 9, 2019
Quadruple Dang!
Ever go to a buffet and Itzz Not at all allergic? And Before ya know it, there are no More portions! The FIXER menu could survive an Expansion. Bernadette would approve whilst recovering from this adventure.
Ever go to a buffet and Itzz Not at all allergic? And Before ya know it, there are no More portions! The FIXER menu could survive an Expansion. Bernadette would approve whilst recovering from this adventure.
September 30, 2019
Fun, as always, and I'm hoping we'll see some new plot development in the next books considering what happened in this one :) Nicely done :)
December 20, 2019
Outstanding story, outstanding series. I really hope there are more books coming
January 29, 2020
Yeehaw!!!
What a ride! Andrew you are a true wordsmith and know how to paint a picture! I appreciate the read!
What a ride! Andrew you are a true wordsmith and know how to paint a picture! I appreciate the read!
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