esmith@uok.UUCP (07/04/84)
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uok!esmith Jul 3 18:14:00 1984
7 virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.
F.M. Busby and the Rissa Kerguelen Saga.
I know that these books were published back in 1977, but they have been
re-released and make excellent reading. Berkley Publishing has taken the
original two book series and split them into three. The books are:
Young Rissa,
Rissa and Tregare,
& The Long View.
The books get a little hard to follow becuase of the over abundance of
supporting characters, but other than that they are a very well written
series of books.
The series starts out with our heroine, age five, on Earth. The bad
guys kill her parents and put her into legalized slavery, welfare, from
here we follow her through several mishaps and she escapes in a very
innovative way, she kills her way out. Well so as not to be a spoiler
we follow her adventures as she and her husband, Tregare, try to take
back Earth from the evil hands that made the galaxy such a rotten place
to live.
Every once and a while the movement drags a litte bit and there's a quite
a few a typo's but nobodys perfect. All in all the reading was good and
was very well done.
Although the plot is not very original Busby adds a "realism" to
the Books that can only be comapared with some of Heinleins works.
My recommendation is that if you like Heinlien, you should like these
books very much, I did.
- Eric L. Smith
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