- Space travelers, Witches, Fiction, Space ships
HIS LUCK HAD FINALLY TURNED... ... and for the worse. Unlucky at love, unsuccessful in business, unable to win friends and influence people, Pausert thought he had finally found his niche: captaining the stout old tramp starship VENTURE and her odd-lot cargoes around the fringes of the Empire.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, epic and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- James H. Schmitz
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- Baen, Distributed by Simon & Schuster, VGSF
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Dutch, Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9784488708016
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