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Minor Terran bureaucrat, Hobart Floyt, has been left a mysterious inheritance by the ruler of an empire located many light-years away. Earth's government is broke and its functionaries want Floyt to... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0345314875
ISBN13:9780345314871
Release Date:January 1985
Publisher:Del Rey Books
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 4.2" x 6.9"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Amazed at how good it remains after 15 years!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I first read this book when it appeared in paperback in 1985 or so. On a recenct visit to my parents home, I found it on a shelf while poking around on a lazy afternoon and started reading...I was delighted to find it was as good as I remembered, the characters are vivid, likeable and engaging and the story is epic and interesting. I have never read too much of this genre, so I'm not as picky as some others who have reviewed this title, I suppose, but I find the above qualities refreshing in a genre that seems to have been left to the "experts", a situation that always ends up dull. My biggest piece of advice would be to buy all three books at once, if possible, free up a weekend and go for a great ride. Even at 33 I felt-as I did at 17-a sense of personal loss when the last page of the last book ended, like friends had moved away.
Highly recommended
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Book 1 of the chronicles of Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh Absolutely hilarious. Daley describes a fairly distant future in which I wouldn't mind living, complete with aliens, ray-guns, Galactic gypsies, flying bicycles, starships, automatic taxidermy machines, villains, heroes, and True Love. The main characters are a mousy little bureaucrat from isolationist Earth and a chaotic and flamboyant ABS (Able-Bodied Starman). Just good fun; very hard to put down. One of my absolute favourites when I want a laugh. Rated 'G'; I consider the content of this book to be suitable reading for all ages.
Regarding Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This book is now of as good material as is being written today this year 2000. As other reviewers have commented I too find it was of good quality and am disapointed it is not still available in stores.Also is there any other books on these two caracters after the white ship book.
Excellent space opera
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book is one of my all time favorites. Brian Daley creates a wonderfully large sci-fi world that makes you want to know more about it. The plot quickly draws you in with Daley's in depth style. While not only being enjoyable in its self, it sets up the next book in the series very well (which is also excellent). If you like Lois McMasters Bujold, you'll love this.
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