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Farscape 2: House of Cards (Paperback)

by Keith DeCandido (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Boxtree Ltd (23 Mar 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752219170
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752219172
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 577,047 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Keith DeCandido's enjoyable Farscape tie-in novel, House of Cards, is set during season two of the TV show, and plays nicely to the main characters' strengths. Moya ferries home a native of Liantac, a planet resembling Las Vegas, whose tourist trade has been badly affected by laric particles in the atmosphere. These prevent all but biological ships, like Moya, from functioning. Unable to resist gambling, Rygel gets involved in a high-stakes card game and is tricked into wagering Moya herself. When he loses to Netoros, a member of the planet's ruling consortium, Crichton, D'Argo and Zhaan are forced to work for her to pay off the debt. But Netoros is using them to further her own schemes, and Aeryn has to pretend she is still a Peacekeeper to save her friends.

DeCandido has successfully captured the feel of the show with very non-human, bird-like aliens, jokey dialogue, and good character interplay. The plot is intriguingly complicated as Netoros manoeuvres for power and Crichton and the others try to rescue Moya and solve the problem of the laric particles. The excitement level is never very high, but there are some nice insights into the characters' backgrounds, in particular Aeryn, who as usual is having trouble with her Peacekeeper past catching up with her. This is a modest adventure to help tide fans over until season three hits our TV screens. --Elizabeth Sourbut



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When Moya picks up Fari, a passenger headed for his home planet Liantac, a planet that suffers from an atmospheric abnormality that prevents any mechanical propulsion system from operating within its orbit, it is obvious that Moya's organic propulsion system will be invaluable.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good really, 5 May 2001
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Yay - this is actually a very witty, very amusing little novel, written by an author who is actually very passionate about the best prog in the known universe. I read the first half of Dark Side of the Sun - the first instalment in the hopefully long-running Farscape series of novels - and was very impressed, so I wrote a review of it in AMAZON. Unfortunately, the review was written before I had finished it, and the climax was deeply, deeply disappointing... I was a little dubious about purchasing HOUSE OF CARDS, and I'm glad to say that I didn't regret it. Although the last fifty pages get a little confusing, (it's as if the author doesn't quite have an idea how he's going to end it), there are far too many references to past episodes, and there's often a recycling of past ideas, it's a very entertaining read. As the author says: everyone gets something to do (except for Crichton, unusually) and the ending is actually very satisfying. Yay again!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not Bad at all, 24 April 2001
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I was dreading reading this book because I was scared that it would be as bad as the Jim Mortimore one. However I was pleasantly surprised to find that I actually enjoyed this book on the whole and that I did not think that I had wasted my money buying it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars I Like It, 27 Mar 2001
Now this is how a farscape Book tie-in should read. It's funny and best of all true to the series... apart from extremely minor things... (there is still a minidics player.. but thats forgivable...) All in all i found this an extremely enjoyable and funny book. i would recomend it.
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