Alien Bondage [Mass Market Paperback]

If you're reading this review because you've never read any "Spaceways," and you have the rare opportunity to actually aquire a book from this great series, my first statement to you is "GRAD IT QUICK! " Long out of print, and highly collectible, these books are to science fiction what the equially impossible to find "Man From O.R.G.Y." series was to spy fiction, the absolute pinnacle of the genre in its ADULT form. John Cleve (aka Andy Offitt) is the first and last word on explicit, genre-specific, adult storytelling. Offitt started out ghost writing books for John Norman's "Gor" series, then followed them with his magnificent medieval adult series "Crusaders." But it's with the nineteen book epic "Spaceways" series that Offitt reaches the height of his storytelling art. The first book, "Alien Bondage" introduces the reader to just a few of the series fantastic characters (you won't meet them all until book 6! ), especially Captain Jonuta, the dashing interplanetairy space pirate who makes Han Solo look like Peter Pan, Kenowa, his lusty but insecure first mate, and Janja, the beautiful blond haired woman stolen by Jonuta from her native planet and sold into sexual slavery, who will come back to haunt him in later novels. If you have the opportunity, read them in order, for the series evolves into a storyline as complex and well developed as anything written by Larry Niven or Joe Strazinsky (Babylon 5), even containing a dictionairy at the end of each book to help the reader translate the series' abundent futuristic slang (a la' Anthony Burgess). In fact, the only thing that sets this series apart from the finest science fiction epics is that it's VERY X-RATED! If you're looking for explicit adult science fiction these are DEFINATELY the books to read. Nothing written in the fifteen years since they went out of print has bested them, and certinly nothing before, but beware, books #14-16 were NOT written by Offitt, and are not up to the series' otherwise high standards, also books 18 and 19 were published in very short print runs and tend to be by far the most difficult to find. Finally, if you like sexy feline characters, in the style of Lucianne Norman, then books #6 and #17 are a must. Book #6 "Purrfect Plunder" is my personal favorite, and in my opinion the best of the series, though fortunately, one of the easiest to find.

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