Frey is looking to make a tremendously big score and against his better instincts, bites onto the bait of what is obviously too good to be true. Who are those crew members – Crake, the Daemonist and his golem Bess Silo, the difficult to understand and little spoken ship’s engineer the ship’s doctor Malvery pilots Pinn and Harkins and the newest member of the crew Jez the navigator. He’s a typical roguish-type who cares more about his ship, The Ketty Jay, more than the people working the ship. The story tells of a riffraff crew with Captain Darien Frey at the center. Perhaps Wooding could have thrown that tagline into the subtitle since the sense of wonder, thrill of adventure, and pure fun that is laced throughout the entirety of the novel evokes those pulpy stories which helped to provide a basis for today’s SF.
Sky Pirates of the Future could easily be the tagline for Chris Wooding superbly entertaining SF novel Retribution Falls, if it were written half a century ago. Readers here in the US, like myself, are now lucky enough to have this book on the shelves, and its sequel, hitting shelves in short time.
I should point out that this novel was published in 2009 in the UK, which is when the venerable Hobbit reviewed the book initially for SFFWorld.
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