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Rendezvous On A Lost World
Rendezvous On A Lost World
Rendezvous On A Lost World
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Rendezvous On A Lost World

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THE ROBOT ROAD TO FARAWAY

His was a dream few spacemen ever saw come true. Alan Kemp was an obsessed man—driven by the realization of a dream into the black emptiness between the stars.

In a rebuilt, second-hand, obsolete ship, Kemp and his three comrades took off—determined to set up a shuttle between the planets at the Rim of the galaxy.

But trouble—in the form of two lost colonies, one inhabited by giant mechanical insects and the other ruled by the descendants of a murderous pirate—threatened. Kemp’s crew began to wonder: just how much will a man sacrifice to realize a dream?
LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 9, 2016
ISBN9781787200715
Rendezvous On A Lost World
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A. Bertram Chandler

Arthur Bertram Chandler (28 March 1912 - 6 June 1984) was a British-Australian science fiction author, writing under his own name and the pseudonyms George Whitley, George Whitely, Andrew Dunstan, and S.H.M. He wrote over 40 novels and 200 works of short fiction and won the Ditmar Awards for the short story “The Bitter Pill” (in 1971) and for three novels: “False Fatherland” (in 1969), “The Bitter Pill” (in 1975), and “The Big Black Mark” (in 1976).

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I liked this book, even as it shows its age of more than half a century and the plot itself isn't the most innovative.Wolf, the planet where the protagonist goes on his hunt for his niece and her father, has an abundance of characteristics that readers will remember for MZB's Darkover series. Darkover, on the other hand, is mentioned as a different world. This mismatch may seem jarring for readers who are acquainted with her work.I consider this novel as something we rarely see in an author's work: a snapshot from right in the middle of the worldbuilding process. Many elements we see here in their raw form will appear later in another context, and I'd really like to know more about the thought process that evolved Wolf into the famous Darkover in the end.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Jun10:Plot: Kind of like early pulp sci-fi. There is a plot, but it doesn't really have to be developed or make sense.Characters: Pretty good. Better than flat. The villain was completely forgettable though. Wanton sex with the natives ala Kirk.Style: Promises of an author to come. And really, she was a great author. Parts of this book really shined.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Reminded me a lot of C.L Moore's Northwest of Earth. Apparently the author was influenced by Northwest. I found the ending to be ... how do I put it? Flat. Interesting on the whole, but not one I'd rush to re-read.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is a hard book to review - and in some ways that's my fault. This is one of MZB's very early books (it was first published 4 years before I was born), but I'm reading a reprint from after she died.The story is, of itself, perfectly competently told and engaging. A Terran intelligence agent on a distant planet on which he has an awkward past having spent 10 years undercover gets called off the ship transporting him to another planet for one last mission - to rescue his niece his from the father he has a blood feud with. The story skips along with that path, on a suitably alien planet with some suitably alien attitudes and adds some extra twists and turns along the way. All in all, it should be very satisfying.But then the planet is called Wolf, but it has a red sun, a ghost wind, cat-people and ya-men, a red-headed psychic child, Dry Towns where they chain their women and suddenly it feels like a Darkover novel. There are differences, but they're small and fussy and they make it hard to take in - this book set in a totally new alien culture would have been much better I think, but a bit like speaking to an American who misuses English a bit, it's more jarring than speaking English to a French person where the missteps are much more common and so you accept them and go with them much more smoothly.If I didn't know the Darkover books, or if the differences between Wolf and Darkover were bigger, or it was set on Darkover without the disguise, I'd be giving it more stars I think - if you want something quick and accessible in the series it's a decent enough place to start.I also want to know if there was ever a series planned of the old empire... that spread the cat people, the ya-men and the like across planets with suns now gone red... but I guess we'll never know.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A so-so science fiction adventure. Really a take-off on the much used crime plot: burned out detective/policeman, etc. is about to leave town/planet when he is called back into service. He must go undercover to track down his ex-friend now-nemesis.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Not a bad story....just a bit dated as a re-issue of M.Z.Bradley's first novel from 1961. A mixed-species planet with many plots against humans--but has secret teleportation. It was probably a pretty good story when first published, but a bit stodgy for today. The hero has a vendetta for his old partner, but is forced by the Terran government to find & bring in said partner and it turns out that there are circumstances etc. and women--of various humanoid persuasions--that influence the plot. Today I would qualify this as a YA level story.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley

    I read this; because it was there. Well, it's written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and its one of the first novels of her's that was published. I loved The Colors of Space but honestly did not read much more than that because her stories seemed predominantly fantasy and at the time I was reading science fiction.

    I'm almost sorry I haven't read more of her's- the good thing is that enough is out there I might still have time.

    The Door Through Space demonstrates that she had a lot of talent coming out of the gate.

    The story starts on the planet known as Wolf. The reader is introduced to Race Cargill former intelligence agent of the Terran Secret Service. He's at the spaceport in Kharsa and in the first chapter we are introduced to the natives much of the political situation and some of the back-story of Cargill all through the movement of a mob chasing a dwarf who appears to be peddling toys. And the reader is introduced to a mystery when the dwarf disappears while Cargill is trying to calm the natives, using his skill at speaking in their language. All of this is in the first short chapter.

    Cargill is intent on leaving Wolf on the next Star-ship. He's ready to go and on the ship waiting when he's pulled off by his employer who has one more job for him. This job involves a traitor named Rakhal. Rakhal had been a fellow agent. When he turned native he left with Race's sister Juli and he disfigured Race's face. Race has since been at a desk job and he has no desire or ambition to seek after Rakhal or to kill his own brother in law. The problem is that Juli has come back and she's desperate to have Race find Rakhal and bring back her own daughter to her.

    If that's not enough Race finds out that Rakhal has been pursuing the possibility that someone on Wolf might possess a matter transmitter. If that's true then Terran Intelligence needs to be on top of it.

    One more time Race Cargill must go undercover to find his niece and try to secure the matter transmitter.

    This is a tightly written tale that has survived the test of time and still stands as an intriguing story that keeps the reader on their toes and involved to the very end.

    Guttenburg has this in kindle format and its easy to upload it from a pc into your que- I believe that's how I did it.

    J.L. Dobias
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Romance masquerading as a peculiar mix of fantasy and science fiction. Implausible plot, cardboard characters, and genteel bodice-ripping situations. The mind boggles at what passed for popular fiction in the old days.

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