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Phobos
by Ty Drago check out website: www.tor.com
Brogue has to sort this problem out as well as the reluctance of the private research group in giving him all the information he needs to solve the problem. Blended into this mix, are political fractions who don't like the Mars born humans and other racial problems. In many ways, this is an old fashioned detective space opera. It's made slightly worse in that Brogue does the equivalent of turning the lights out so the villains can run to find out who they are. This is a bit odd cos I worked out successfully who the ringleader was before getting to this stage. The few red herrings weren't big enough distraction from working out what was really going on. This isn't to say this isn't an interesting read but it's not exactly demanding in this day and age. As a first time novelist, Ty Drago is undoubtedly finding his feet with this book and is likely to become even more adventurous in books to come. GF Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - February 2004
BOOKS The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold The Separation by Christopher Priest First Meetings In The Enderverse by Orson Scott Card Dragon Venom by Lawrence Watt-Evans The Dolphins Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey Reach For Tomorrow by Arthur C Clarke The Mammoth Book Of Best New SF # 16 edited by Gardner Dozois 1610: A Sundial In A Grave by Mary Gentle Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss Trading In Danger by Elizabeth Moon Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Vol. 1 edited by Stanley Wiater The Gates To Witchworld by Andre Norton Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil by Robert Simpson The Killing Of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld Star Trek: The Original Series: Gemini by Mike W. Barr MUSIC COMPUTER GAMES Wallace and Gromit - Project Zoo RPGs & WARGAMES MAGAZINES On Spec: The Canadian Magazine
Of The Fantastic vol 15 no. 2 & 3
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This book wouldn't have been out of date
30 years ago. After a Martian colony is almost destroyed by terrorist
action, its saviour, Lieutenant Mike Brogue, is quickly relocated
to sort out a problem rather than be a political poodle for a year.
It's
a big problem, too. A Peacekeeper squad investigating the deaths
of people on a research station on Phobos, one of Mars'moons, has
its leader killed by a beast living in the surrounding bays of dust.
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