Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!Hallgren.pa@Xerox.ARPA
From: Hallgren.pa@Xerox.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V10 #177
Message-ID: <2125@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 14:21:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.2125
Posted: Wed May 29 14:21:21 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 30-May-85 20:40:15 EDT
Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 19

From: Hallgren.pa@Xerox.ARPA

Space Opera Defined: The Helmsman by Bil Baldwin.

Mini-Review:  Though it was previously mentioned in SFLovers, I think
this book deserves a plug for being a perfect example of Space Opera;
lots of action, and enough of the rest of what makes sf sf.  I found it
very enjoyable.  So will readers of C. S. Foresters' Hornblower books,
and E. E. Smiths work.  But to say the least, the author has a long way
to go to rank anywhere near those two.  I guess I like it bewcause it
creates a universe that appeals very much to me:  an Empire against the
Nazis. 

Cover art actually does represent a scene, but misses by a mile.  Ignore
it and buy the book.  I want to read more of this about this guy.  The
author may improve with some encouragement, as Donaldson did.


Clark H.