- Paperback: 364 pages
- Publisher: Orbit; New edition edition (1 July 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857238818
- ISBN-13: 978-1857238815
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 798,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Elizabeth Moon is best known in Britain for her Paksennarion fantasies; Hunting Party (1993) is the first of her Serrano Legacy SF novels. Its heroine Heris Serrano has suffered a familiar military-SF predicament--forced to resign her command in the space navy thanks to the machinations of a wicked admiral. Her new life as captain of an eccentric lady aristocrat's private space-yacht is handled with originality, charm and a thoughtfulness about how things work that's reminiscent of Robert A. Heinlein's better SF.
Both captain and owner emerge as interesting personalities. Following a voyage enlivened by various accidents plus sabotage attempts by a spoiled brat on board, Hunting Party lives up to its title with episodes of horsemanship and fox-hunting on a lord's planet-wide estate. Here, secretly, darker entertainment is also going on--a sadistic armed hunt for human quarry. As a former US Marines lieutenant, Moon is grimly plausible about guns and their effects. Perhaps a little less plausible are the coincidences that bring together numerous unexpected characters, including Heris's personal nemesis and an old flame, for satisfying final confrontations.
The story reads well and is self-contained: Heris's adventures continue in further novels, Sporting Chance and Winning Colours. --David Langford
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'A highly entertaining adventure ... thrilling' LOCUS
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hit the mark,
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This review is from: Hunting Party (The Serrano legacy) (Paperback)
For someone who likes science fiction, horses, strong female characters and military novels this is a gift. After picking the book up quickly at a railway station I was gripped and spent the next fortnight looking for the rest of the series. Yes there are some unlikely plot coincidences but for pace, adrenalin and sheer entertainment you would be hard pressed to find better. I was interested to find Moon's writing compared in another review to the better Robert Heinlein because he was a favourite author when I was younger. Keep the books coming.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A so-so read,
This review is from: Hunting Party (The Serrano legacy) (Paperback)
I love good space-opera novels, and am prepared to read a few not so good ones on the way. I really don't know which category to put the Serrano novels in.On the positive side the some of the characters, such as the Yacht's owner and members of the crew are well realised and interesting, others are painful caricatures. Such as the evil nemesis admiral, with whom, as others have commented, the final encounter is just too pat; and the ‘rough’ crewman who can be relied upon to know every shifty deal and win every brawl as well as the flighty dilettantes that find wealth and privilege don’t buy them everything. My biggest gripes are that as somebody not interested in horses, and someone with no liking at all of fox-hunting, there were large passages in this book I ended up skipping just because they were too dull. Lots of jolly aristocrats out leaping hedges etc. To be fair it reads like Ms Moon knows her stuff but unless you’re into horses too it’s hard work. I know Sci-fi is often full of clichés and ‘borrowed’ concepts, but it doesn’t mean I have to like it. The whole ‘they’re hunting people!’ plot line read as tired and uninspired. It’s such an old, old, old theme it really needs some spark to give it a fresh feel. ‘Hunting Party’ didn’t have it. It does have some nice touches however, the starports and life on the yacht, the impression of a social and political theatre around the main protagonists are all alluded to well. There’s some nice foreshadowing of events in later books as well. The next book, A Sporting Chance is far superior, and as such I’d consider ‘Hunting Party’ worth reading as a prelude, and for some of it’s better points
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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I really liked it,
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This review is from: Hunting Party (The Serrano legacy) (Paperback)
I began searching out Elizabeth Moon books because I am an Anne McCaffrey addict. I found 'Hunting Party' to be absorbing and believable. The only thing I found odd is the blond on the cover bears no resemblance to the description of Herris Serrano: short, dark, middle-aged. A strong ex-military woman with a lot of combat experience who hasn't undergone 'rejuv' yet would not be so 'dewy' in appearance.
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