Quarter Share (Trader's Tales From The Golden Age Of The Solar Clipper) (Volume 1)

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Quarter Share (Trader's Tales From The Golden Age Of The Solar Clipper) (Volume 1)

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Pros

The story of ish and lois plays out slowly, enveloping the reader in peace and calm. The characters are distinct and not predictable. The dialog makes sense.

It's about discovery & exploration and possibilities. Nothing too outlandish, but a fun combination of a sci-fi setting exploring worlds with simple monolithic economies. The trader tales follow a wide-eyed, scared young man from the beginning of ... Read More

This book introduces us to ishmael immediately after the death of his mother in what in the future would be today a catastrophic car accident. Like an enormous game of billiards, ishmael as a cue ball is struck by a cosmic cue stick and thus begins hi... Read More

Cons

The author tries to show the monotony of working in a galley, but it seems to me that lowell has just been lazy. Lowell leaves out everything that made forester and heinlein great. Lowell.

Quarter share is a book that has a lot of promise but in the end fails to deliver a satisfying experience. While it is an excellent choice to break from the norm in that way, unfortunately the author also breaks from some good literary norms. It's pro... Read More

The main character loses his mother in the first few pages and after that not much is mentioned about it, so it seems like a plot tool rather than part of the story. The problem with all of this is it's never difficult for the protagonist. He's good b... Read More

Without any real science fiction.

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Quality

I enjoyed it and will continue with the next one

I have now read all 6 books and onto the next series and enjoying the continuity

I wasnt that thrilled with the narrator

Having read other reviews about the problems they had with the way the main character developed in the rest of the series ive d... Read More

Price

I read the novel from amazon prime so it cost me nothing

Shipping

I really enjoyed getting to know the characters and the community that forms on the ship

I love the ships the battles the aliens the strange new planets

I kept waiting for the lifethreatening ship emergency though this is more of an acquiringofskills tale

Then we see how people still function within those constraints and move out to the ship