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Subject: Re: RI August 2024
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:33:09 -0400
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On 9/8/24 12:24 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> Here is August, and one other.
> 
> As usual the links (except for gutenberg) are Amazon Affiliate
> ones which could in theory earn me a pittance should you buy through
> one.
> 
> I should probably let this rest overnight and read it for sanity
> tomorrow, but what the hey.

As always, thanks for these! A few comments below...


> 
> ==
 >
 > <some snippage>
 >
> 
> Gods' Battleground (Legion of Angels Book 12)
> by Ella Summers
> https://amzn.to/47gdSgO
> 
> Leda Pandora has come a long way since she joined the Legion of
> Angels as a way to level-up enough to rescue her kidnapped brother.
> She long ago accomplished that, but by that time her life was
> complicated enough that that was hardly the end of her adventures.
> Now as the child of both a god & a demon, she has the task of
> coordinating both of those fractious pantheons against the ultimate
> menace of the "Guardians" who have cursed her sister as well as
> being just generally mean & nasty.  It plays out well enough,
> including a standard fantasy "arena fighter" sequence, but on the
> whole, it feels like what it is, a wrap-up book and doesn't quite
> have the energy of the early books.
> 
> Leda's arc is basically finished, but I believe we can expect more
> books in this universe.  In particular, Leda's daughter is a child
> of Prophecy...
> 

I may have said this before, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to try this 
series some time. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

 >
 > <some snippage>
 >


> 
> Captain Future #22 Children of the Sun
> by Edmond Hamilton
> https://amzn.to/4cYJ1Xs
> 
> Here's one from my review hiatus of last year that I wanted to get out.
> 
> Curt Newton, aka Captain Future started out as a pulp hero, sort
> of a future Doc Savage.  Like Savage he had a crew of bickering
> side-kicks, went on done-in-one adventures, and was pretty much the
> same book to book.  Most of those short books (one appearing in
> each issue of "Captain Future" magazine) were (mostly) written by Space Opera
> pioneer Edmond Hamilton, and there were 20 of them before the
> magazine folded.
> 
> I don't know if it were Hamilton's idea or an editor's request, but
> that wasn't the end of Captain Future with Hamilton bringing
> Curt Newton back for a number of novella length "mature" adventures
> in other magazines with this being the second such.  And good heavens,
> it's a winner, a marvelous story.
> 
> One of Newton's scientist friends is missing, and the crew tracks him
> to Mercury (this is still the habitable Solar System), a place they
> have been before.  On-planet, the clues all lead one way, and when they
> find the scientist's fate, Curt must decide whether to follow and try
> to bring him back or not.  In the event he does try, and it's
> an emotional roller-coaster of a journey with an ending that wrings
> out everybody.
> 
> You can sense the differences from the pot-boiler pulps immediately.
> Newton's famous ship, The Comet, is battered and pitted, the crew
> are all serious, and are all given real things to do, there is no
> "villain" and no fights though there are certainly heroics, and there
> is no pat happy-ending though it is a satisfying one.
> 
> Bravo, Mr. Hamilton.

This reminds me that Hamilton's Starwolf trilogy has been sitting 
dormant and unread on one of my shelves. I need to read that some time.

Thanks again,
Tony