| Online Full Text: |
Internet Archive
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| Series: |
Endless Quest
—
no. 17 |
| Translated Into: |
La Planète captive (French) |
| Author: |
Simon, Morris
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| Illustrators: |
Caldwell, Clyde
(cover) Grainger, Sam (interior) |
| Date: |
July, 1984 |
| ISBN: |
0880380780 / 9780880380782
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| Length: |
157 pages |
| Number of Endings: |
16 |
| User Summary: | While away at school you have difficulty communicating with your parents at home; something terrible is going on and you must investigate. |
| Demian's Thoughts: |
This is a very frustrating book. Not only is it quite difficult to get through, it has no particularly satisfactory ending; even the "best" endings are ambiguous. Perhaps a sequel was planned to resolve the loose ends, but if so, it was never written. |
| Kveto's Thoughts: |
I've never been a big sci-fi fan, so I wasn't really the target audience for this one, but I've enjoyed Morris Simon books, such as Talisman of Valdegarde, before, so I gave it a go. I couldn't really get into it. Sci-fi books in this series don't seem to age as well as the fantasy books but that might just be the medium. I felt myself getting buried a bit in some of the techno-babble but that also could have been a result of me trying to read it on-line rather than in book format. Also of note, this seems to be the point in the series where the cover format changed, going from a pretty framed picture to a more generic full cover picture. And prior to this, each book had a different gemstone on the spine. And the hero's name, Brim Darkstar, is too manly to be taken seriously. |
| utfanatic's Thoughts: |
An excellent Endless Quest book. Morris Simon does a respectable job with the writing. Very creative plot, and a nice Sci-Fi twist and change of pace for the Endless Quest series. Choices are meaningful, and can lead to vastly different outcomes. Overall, nice quick read for an Endless Quest book. Rating 1-10: 7 |
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Endless Quest #17: Captive Planet [full text]
http://www.starfrontiers.com/Quests/8517/index.htm
(last verified: 2016-11-15)