Tales of the Star Wolf

I HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED GOOD SPACE OPERA AND THIS ONE IS TRULY WORTH A LISTEN. ITS A REAL SHAME THAT THIS TRIO OF STORIES NEVER MADE IT TO THE SCREEN BECAUSE THEY ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN A LOT OF WHAT HAS MADE IT THERE. A RARE COMBINATION OF CHARACHERS YOU CAN CARE ABOUT AND ENJOY AND A CLEVER, RATIONAL, AND HONEST PLOT LINE THAT JUST SWEEPS YOU ALONG. I HAD NO DESIRE TO PUT THIS STORY DOWN UNTIL I HAD COME SADLY TO ITS END, UNLIKE MANY BOOKS I HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO LATELY. THE STORIES CONTAIN INTERESTING REFERENCES TO OTHER STORIES AND CHARACTERS WHICH WILL BE FAMILIAR TO THOSE WHO ENJOY THE SPACE OPERA GENRE. ALSO ENJOYABLE ARE THE INTROS AND THE AFTERWARD BY THE AUTHOR WHICH GO INTO THE BACKROUND OF THE STARWOLF IDEA. TRULY GREAT FUN AND I HOPE THE AUTHOR RETURNS TO THIS STORY LINE AND CONTINUES THE SAGA OF THE STAR WOLF.

Story: The Star Wolf is a cursed ship, on its first voyage it ends up leading the enemy Morthans to the staging to the secret staging area for the alliance, which ends up causing the alliance fleet to be mauled and the Star Wolf to become a pariah. The situation goes down hill from there. Crewing this ship is the unlucky commander Korie and a bunch of oucasts, green horns, and screwups who no matter how well they do never seem to catch a break and go from one desperate situation to the next.The part chronicles how the Star-Wolf ends up becoming a paraih ship and how commander Korie starts his cycle of never getting promoted to captin, the second part takes place right after the first and details how Korie saves his ship from being decommisoned and goes a little deeper into to the background of the ship and why it can't shake its undeserved reputation and why Korie cannot be promoted. The third and final part apparently takes part a couple years after the first two and details how the star wolf and crew prevent a deadly bio-weapon from being released. ----- All and all this isn't a bad collection of stories. In between the stories it's pointed out that this evolved from a Star Trek story that was deemed to dark/contriversial for its time and how the The Star Wolf series keeps getting rewritten to be produced on TV but then gets shot down for some reason or another. Its roots show as it seems that the story can move at a break neck pace somtimes and then slow down to deal with a specific incident. Usually this occurs where a montage of scenes would be shown to show time passing, a good example is in the first book when Hardesty comes aboard. He goes from chewing out the Korie to ordering the ship out of Dry Dock whithin a page or two, the ship completly fixed. There are also some parts where hints are dropped about the character's past but never explored. This is pointed out by the author and the commentators throughout the book so is not as glaring as it could have been. All and all its a nice fast read and if you want to see what could have been and maybe someday will be a TV show give it a shot. m.a.c