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290pp
ISBN: 1-59102-337-8
Hardcover (6" x 9")
$25
December 2005
Cover Illustration and Design: ©2005 John Picacio
www.johnpicacio.com
The starship Theodore Roosevelt is fighting on the far outskirts
of a galactic war, its crew made up of retreads and raw recruits. A new
first officer reports, Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for
exceeding his orders (but getting results). He’s been banished to the
Teddy R. for his actions, but once there he again ignores his
orders. ...
This is the first of five novels about the starship Theodore
Roosevelt. The next four will be, in order, Pirate, Mercenary,
Rebel, and Flagship.
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Reviews:
"I would put this one on your reading list. Starship: Mutiny by Mike Resnick
is a wonderful space adventure that I readily recommend to even the most casual science
fiction reader. Fans of science fiction television would also enjoy this book. In many
ways, Starship: Mutiny reminded me of the Stargate series, as well as other similar programs.
I look forward to the next installment."
—Bella Online
“... on par with the best of Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan
series....Resnick is simply a consummate storyteller, and he's in top
form here. Simply put: this is a space opera that hits all the right
notes.” — Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show
“[F]ew writers have Resnick’s gift for pace and momentum, ... his talent
for producing a fast, smooth, utterly effortless read.” - Analog
Science Fiction and Fact
“Resnick’s reputation for writing two-fisted adventure has
already been established, and Starship: Mutiny doesn’t change
that. Once again, the author demonstrates his ability to create
characters several shades above stereotype, as well as fit them into a
carefully conceived universe. Readers looking for an old-fashioned yarn
will find this novel an auspicious start to a promising
series.” -Starlog
“Mike Resnick is the king of intelligent space opera adventure.
His future universe where the majority of his sf novels have occurred is
superbly real, and characters, both human and alien, are the folk of
legend. But despite this it never feels too out of the ordinary, there
is a definite realism (accepting the setting aboard starships that
is).... This is a book that I believe cannot help itself when it comes
to pleasing all of Resnick's many fans, and is one I feel should win him
some new fans along the way. This is book one in the adventures of
Wilson Cole and the Starship Theodore Roosevelt, and a fine start
to the series it is. I want book two.” - The Eternal Night
“Prolific sf author Resnick (Kirinyaga; A Hunger in the
Soul) launches a new series of military sf adventure with a solid
introductory tale of one man's faith in himself and the loyalty of his
comrades. A good choice for large sf collections.”
- Library Journal
“When first officer Wilson Cole challenges his incompetent
captain aboard the starship Theodore Roosevelt, Cole must pay the
price for mutiny in Hugo-winner Mike Resnick’s rousing Starship:
Mutiny, the first in a projected five-book series.” - Publishers
Weekly
“The first of a proposed five-book saga set in his
career-spanning Birthright Universe, Mike Resnick's Starship:
Mutiny is just the kind of easygoing and unabashedly old-school
space opera romp for which we've come to know and love him ...
whip-smart, fast-paced pure entertainment ... simply pure escapism,
impossible to resist by anyone who still remembers that good old
fashioned sense of wonder.” - SF Reviews
“Resnick's writing is effortless, full of snappy dialogue and a
fast moving plot. The real delight to reading this novel is the banter
and jokes in the conversations between Cole and the crewmates he does
get on with, the insults and sarcastic comments with those he doesn't
get on with, and the real feeling of camaraderie and society it creates.
It's very easy to imagine this as a real world and setting because the
characters act so naturally together....This was my first time at a
Resnick book, so I had no expectations coming in. Needless to say, I was
impressed. This is high quality work....There's a veneer of quality and
above all believability that makes this heads above many space
operas...it's damn good fun.” - SFCrowsnest
“Mr. Resnick isn’t interested in playing textual games. He’s
interested in exploring the value of logic, the purpose of the military,
the idiocy of both inflexible rulebooks and the where-the-wind blows
populist press, and most importantly the potential for heroism.” -
Ideomancer.com
“Fun, light reading.” -Philadelphia Center City Weekly Press
"Resnick is thought-provoking, imaginative ... and above all
galactically grand." - Los Angeles
Times
"Nobody spins a yarn better than Mike Resnick." - Orson Scott
Card
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nbsp; Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of
Ender's Game
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