{"id":597,"date":"2002-02-25T13:26:57","date_gmt":"2002-02-25T13:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=597"},"modified":"2016-10-03T14:13:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T14:13:49","slug":"orion-arm-by-julian-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/science-fiction\/orion-arm-by-julian-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Orion Arm, by Julian May"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"orion-arm-by-julian-may\"<\/a>Genre: Science Fiction<\/strong>
\n Publisher: Ballantine<\/strong>
\n Published: 2000<\/strong>
\n Reviewer Rating: \"threehalfstars\"<\/strong>
\n Book Review by Aaron M. Renn<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Those of you who read my review will recall that I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked May’s light adventure Perseus Spur<\/b>. Well now she’s back with a second installment in the continuing adventures of Asahel Frost aka Helmut Icicle. This one, dare I say it, is even better than the first.<\/p>\n

Frost is back on Kedge-Lockaby living as Icicle, having left Rampart Starcorp in disgust after a violent disagreement over how to handle what was learned about the threat of the alien Haluk in Perseus Spur<\/b>. Again, someone tries to kill him, which really pisses him off, especially since he’s pretty sure it’s an agent of Galapharma AC, a corporation headed by the detested Alistair Drummond. Asahel “I try to get out but they keep pulling me back in” Frost captures the assassin then goes on a quest to get to the bottom of things.<\/p>\n

Again, this is light entertainment, but pretty darn tasty light entertainment. Just the kind I like. I was all ready to slam the book for being too long at nearly 400 pages, but quite honestly I breezed through it so fast I didn’t even notice the length. The only thing that really annoyed me about the it was the continuing references to late 20th century cultural elements. But I think that’s clearly a nitpicky matter of taste.<\/p>\n

Immediate problems are resolved, but I’ll tell you right now that even more so than in the last book, May sets us up for a sequel. Expect at least one more to turn this one into a Rampart Worlds Trilogy.<\/p>\n

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