- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Legend; paperback / softback edition (6 Mar 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099791218
- ISBN-13: 978-0099791218
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 11 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,360,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the year 2531 a human expedition led by Captain Leonie Strider sets off from Jupiter orbit to claim humanity's first colony world outside the solar system. But their progress is rudely halted by a hyperspace portal which lands them in the middle of a galactic conflict.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
...Strider's Galazy is a great piece of space opera -- it's one of those romps with enough thrills to keep you reading way past bedtime plus some good jokes that'll make you laugh out loud. Actually, it's more than just a romp: the aliens are really great (truly *alien* for a change) and there are plenty of them, and there's a genuine feeling of the strangeness and dispassionateness of the universe. And the book is not just mind-expanding but compulsively readable.
I'd say I enjoyed this book the most of any of its kind I've read recently, but I enjoyed its sequel, *Strider's Universe*, even more.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'd rather hit myself repeatedly in the groin than read this again. The style is dull, the plot unhinged, and the 'characters' just don't have any.
It runs like this: the ship gets magically transported to a random place with lots of aliens (in a ST-Voyager sort of way). A sequence of unconnected crises prove (repeatedly) that Captain Strider is the macho sort who'll always sacrifice a crewmember to save the ship.
Realising she's killed all her crew, Strider gives up space travel and takes up knitting (this doesn't actually happen, but it would be a vast improvement if it did). On no account buy this book. Don't buy it to see if it can really be as awful as I say it is, because you'll be drastically disappointed when you find I'm not exaggerating at all. Go and buy something else.
Go, scoot!
Mush!
HupHupHup! (try David Brin, Peter Hamilton, Neal Stephenson, Azimov, Clarke, Iain Banks).
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book is a great read, in the 25th century a probe sent to tau ceti sends back information on a suitable planet that can be colonized by humans, who are abandoning the nuclear and toxic wastelands of earth and living in under the terraformed skys of overpopulated mars. An extatic Strider find that her life long ambition to traval to the stars might come true and when an accident transports the ship she captains to some galaxy unimaginally far away she and her crew get more then they bargened for in a war that spans a galaxy.
Strider is a very unusual person and has a very strong personality. The ship that is sent out with just 40 people which will never have any contact with any other humans have to be very stable and able to reproduce and colonize an planet. The loneliness of command is shown to great effect in this book and the tough choices that have to be made in such a possition even if it means the death of some of her crew.
The one thing that bothred me was that an too many people were killed, not only much of her crew but millions (even billions) of alins were destroyed. Overall I enjoyd it and cannot wait until I read the next book in the series.
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