Jester of Review
Feb. 19th, 2012 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHey,
So sometime back I reviewed an omnibus collection of "Dumarest of Terra" stories by E.C. Tubb. It's the story of Earl Dumarest who was born on Earth, stowed away on a freighter and wound up in the center of the universe, far from his home which became a thing of legend. So the stories involve his efforts to return home, hopping from planet to planet and scooping up adventure along the way. But the omnibus only had the first four stories.
I'm pleased to see that SF-Gateways has made the entire series available in e-book format. So now I've picked up the series with book 5: The Jester at Scar.
Earl winds up on Scar, a planet with a short orbit and a raging fungal ecosystem that flourishes and dies in a couple of months. But the fungi are valuable and men willing to risk everything will go looking for the species they need.
While Earl is out trying to find a claim big enough to get him passage off-world, the ruler of a world called Jest shows up to take in the sights, along with his new Cylan adviser. The Cylans are a group of cybernetic humans who have stripped away everything but pure intellect. They also have a problem with Earl since he keeps disrupting their plans and killing them.
Adventure follows.
It was a fun, fast read. A little too "square-jawed hero", but the author keeps coming up with interesting locales for adventure.
later
Tom
So sometime back I reviewed an omnibus collection of "Dumarest of Terra" stories by E.C. Tubb. It's the story of Earl Dumarest who was born on Earth, stowed away on a freighter and wound up in the center of the universe, far from his home which became a thing of legend. So the stories involve his efforts to return home, hopping from planet to planet and scooping up adventure along the way. But the omnibus only had the first four stories.
I'm pleased to see that SF-Gateways has made the entire series available in e-book format. So now I've picked up the series with book 5: The Jester at Scar.
Earl winds up on Scar, a planet with a short orbit and a raging fungal ecosystem that flourishes and dies in a couple of months. But the fungi are valuable and men willing to risk everything will go looking for the species they need.
While Earl is out trying to find a claim big enough to get him passage off-world, the ruler of a world called Jest shows up to take in the sights, along with his new Cylan adviser. The Cylans are a group of cybernetic humans who have stripped away everything but pure intellect. They also have a problem with Earl since he keeps disrupting their plans and killing them.
Adventure follows.
It was a fun, fast read. A little too "square-jawed hero", but the author keeps coming up with interesting locales for adventure.
later
Tom
