{"id":1040,"date":"2002-06-28T18:20:41","date_gmt":"2002-06-28T18:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2016-10-18T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T18:24:09","slug":"perseus-spur-by-julian-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/science-fiction\/perseus-spur-by-julian-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseus Spur, by Julian May"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"perseus-spur-by-julian-may<\/a>Genre: Science Fiction<\/strong>
\n Publisher: Ballantine<\/strong>
\n Published: 1999<\/strong>
\n Reviewer Rating: \"three<\/strong>
\n Book Review by Aaron M. Renn<\/strong><\/p>\n

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After the quasi-epic Pliocene Exile\/Galatic Milieu books, this light SF detective adventure is quite a departure for May. Helmut Icicle is the alias of a falsely convicted criminal living on the frontier planet of Kedge-Lockaby. He was once Asahel Frost, the scion of a wealthy and powerful corporate CEO, but was framed when he too aggressively pursued corporate wrongdoing in his job as a government investigator. Resigned to a life as an outcast, everything turns around for Frost when ghosts from his corporate past show up and try to kill him. He gets dragged into a web of intrigue that just might help him win back his good name.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing of tremendous substance here, and I’m sure May didn’t intend for there to be. It’s just fun, light, fairly entertaining reading. Cliches abound and I kept thinking I should probably be finding lots of faults with them and other things about the book. But I didn’t. I liked this book quite a bit.<\/p>\n

May leaves room for a sequel at the end, though the book stands alone. The cover says “An Adventure of the Rampart Worlds”, so I expect this is intended as the first in the continuing adventures of Asahel Frost.<\/p>\n

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