Impersonations

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Walter Jon Williams: Impersonations (2016)

250 pages

English language

Published Feb. 10, 2016

ISBN:
978-0-7653-8781-3
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OCLC Number:
950430433

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4 stars (1 review)

Having offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula has been posted to the planet Earth, a dismal backwater where careers go to die. But Sula has always been fascinated by Earth history, and she plans to reward herself with a long, happy vacation amid the ancient monuments of humanity's home world. Sula may be an Earth history buff, but there are aspects of her own history she doesn't want known. Exposure is threatened when an old acquaintance turns up unexpectedly. Someone seems to be forging evidence that would send her to prison. And all that is before someone tries to kill her. If she's going to survive, Sula has no choice but to make some history of her own.

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4 stars

Back to my Horatio Hornblower in space entertainment. This is a novella written a good while after the first series ended. Clearly the author had an itch to return to the setting.
This was a fine mystery tale showing the flexibility of the setting. It only uses one of the protagonists of the first series (the more interesting one, in my opinion) and clips along nicely.
This is just decent entertainment, to me. Nothing more needs to be said. Although, fair warning, the Kindle copy I bought had atrocious formatting.
Recommended.

Subjects

  • Space warfare
  • Fiction

Places

  • Earth (Planet)