arlan (05/01/83)
*****RIPOFF ALERT****** The heavily-promoted, silver-covered, spaceship-bedecked book by Tor, SKYRIPPER, is NOT SF! True, the first few pages and the LAST PARAGRAPH have SF elements in them, but the rest (99+%) is just a standard secret-agent-turned-cynic/ cum fairly nice guy adventure story. Not too bad for its type, but NOT what you'd expect of a book touted as SF. I admit that it held my interest, but part of that was waiting for the SF to begin. Buy it at a book sale for $.25 and read it when you are desparate. --arlan andrews/indy