The Last Deathship Off Antares

Excellent book, gets better everytime I read it!!!!! I highly recommend it!

Reading this book for the first time was a joy. Re-reading it always seems to reveal something new and interesting. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

The story can be had from the other reviews, but the deeper piece of this book is the near "religion" created by Driscoll called the "Gradient". It's fascinating how he uses this to energize and recruit men to his cause away from despair and hopelessness. It's a metaphor for all life and spirituality, but without a heavy hand. The Gradient is like the Force in Star Wars, but more believable and accessible.

Your typical sci-fi book-movie would have warriors killed or injured after pitched battles between two sides. but few have told of what happened to those captured. stuck for years in deathships cos the antlike aliens who caught them found it beneath their dignity to kill warriors who surrendered in battles, the humans have nothing to do but kill each other for food (ant gruel or cannibalism -- what a choice). how they survived and descriptions of the deathships off the antares platform are great. i like the way the 'anties' treat them to make sure they all die in the end but in a slow excruciating manner. How they escaped would make a good movie. star trek and star wars could learn a thing or two. how they try to defeat their enemies could result in sequels (anybody out there knows where i cd get other books by author?) I have read the book eight times in last few years (found it in second hand bookstore) for its clever prose. and of course the heart-stopping 'what will they do next?'. and oh yes, their leader driscoll is blind. END

A very moving book about the formation of a rebelion in a fleet of intergalactic prison ships, based on the teachings of Driscol, an ex-officer in the earth fleet. In this wonderful story, he, and his men convert thousands of blood thirsty prisoners into a fighting force that eventulay overpower their cruel captors.