Unwittingly destroying an enemy ship in deep space, Rieka Degahv, one of the few human captains of the Commonwealth Fleet, is charged with high treason and embarks on a desperate search to untangle an intergalactic intrigue. Original."
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By C. Bradburn
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I started this book with high hopes but they started flagging just a few chapters into it. The heroine goes from being a highly disciplined officer to a bitter cynic to a total doormat to an infatuated ... within the first half of the book, none of which is believably written. The plot is lifted from a million other space operas. The last few chapters are hard to get through because the author is throwing new disasters at the heroine every few pages, seemingly just to tie up loose ends. I barely managed to finish it, which is the only reason it got two stars.
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I just finished reading this book, and I have to say that Jan Clark is one of my favorite authors now. The worlds and peoples she created were rich and detailed, and she made sure that there were no inconsistancies in what she wrote. The plot was thrilling, the conclusion was grand, and the overall effect on me was amazement!
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Jan Clark's Prodigy is a first time novel from an author who shows a few signs of promise. However, what is mostly there is inane space opera that appears to be overly influenced by various Star Trek episodes. What you get is something that might well work as a script for a SF movie: lots of action scenes with anti-matter spheres flying around interspersed with cuts to intimate scenes of a developing interspecies marriage. There are some evil villains (the Procyons) and some enigmatic but likeable Booleans, whose dialogue represents one of the few fresh touches. The problem is that in a novel that is more than mindless drivel you look for depth: there is none. To bring a novel to the screen, the scriptwriter usually has to simplify. No such process would be required here. In the end I made my own cuts, skipping paragraphs and then pages, trying to get on with this Star Warrian story, without the benefit of visual effects.
The human heroine is a good character and her marriage to a Centaurian provides most of the even slightly intriguing material. There is a bit of good stuff here, every now and again. But finding it in the midst of so much unoriginal prose is a frustrating task, leaving this reader with a strong sense of possibilities unrealized.
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A refreshing new entry into the world of Sci-Fi authors.
While somewhat predictable, the plot has enough twists and turns to keep the reader interested. The style is open and refreshing with Ms. Read more
Published on Oct 24 1998
1.0 out of 5 stars
A real groaner.
A novel set in a parallel universe in which all semblance of logic has been sucked into a black hole. Read more
Published on May 12 1998
4.0 out of 5 stars
A new space opera author to compete with Weber and Bujold
A pretty good space opera to compete with David Weber's Honor Harrington and Lois McMaster Bujold`s Miles Vorkosigan. I would love to see more in a series. Read more
Published on Feb 23 1998 by Greg Weeks
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Great Sci-fi first effort
This is a great first novel and I hope Ms. Clark continues to write books about Rieka and her adventures. Read more
Published on Nov 8 1997 by Lance K. Mertz
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