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Torchship

de Karl K Gallagher

Sèrie: Torchship (1)

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Gallagher, Karl K. Torchship. Torchship No. 1. Kelt Haven Press, 2017.
Karl Gallagher, an M.I.T. alum, is a systems engineer in the aerospace industry who splits his fiction-writing time between space opera and fantasy. Torchship is space opera with some nice touches. It is cool that planet names include their gravity in meters per second squared, not in fractions of a g. I like that one of them is named Kitty Chow. You cannot really run an interstellar economy without AIs, but they don’t like being a permanent underclass in society. They are not warm and cuddly. On some worlds, even researching artificial intelligence is a criminal offense. I like the catch-as-catch can crew of the Fives Full, acquired the same way John D. McDonald’s Travis McGhee acquired the Busted Flush houseboat. They carry passengers who can’t afford better, run intelligence missions, search for treasure, and try to work off their debt and stay out of trouble. It is a tight group, a la Firefly and the Expanse. Like the crewmembers of the Rocinante, the crew of the Fives Full have secret agendas of their own. The story is uncomfortably episodic and does not have the stylistic flourish of a Becky Chambers novel. But readable space opera with some originality is hard enough to find that Torchship gets 4 stars from me. ( )
  Tom-e | Sep 11, 2021 |
No rating. I only got a bit into it but the audio performance was so bad. It seems like a ok book.
  frfeni | Jan 31, 2021 |
Good sci-fi novel (a mix of space opera and hard sci-fi); starts with a few shorter episodes on board a ship, then a longer one. Some of the characters are great. Probably 4.5 stars; lack of anything really new keeps it from 5, although it's one of the best executed versions of the starship/space opera I've ever read. From what I've heard, the sequels are even better. ( )
  octal | Jan 1, 2021 |
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Title: Torchship
Series: Torchship #1
Author: Karl Gallagher
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 300
Format: Digital Edition

Synopsis:


Michigan Long is some sort of undercover agent. After rescuing a scientist who is delving into AI and getting him out of the Fusion (a collection of worlds with a lot technology), she takes up residence as a pilot on a Disconnected (a group of worlds without tech and where slide rules are used for space travel) ship, she has several adventures.

One, their ship is hired as a tour ship that is a cover for a high profile kidnapping. Michigan helps save the day and brings some much needed attention to their ship by powerful people, with money.

That leads into them coming to the attention of the Terraformers, humans who still have contact with uncorrupted AI (corrupted AI are known as Betrayers as they took over the Sol system way back when and are now at quiet war with humanity). They go to a terraformer world only to find a powerful poacher killing wildlife left and right. They deal with him.

The third adventure is a story and a story. They are approached by a man who claims that his grandfather fled from Earth during the betrayal but buried 2 cargo loads of invaluable treasure on a meteor in the Sol system. He has the coordinates but needs a ship and crew willing to risk their lives to enter AI space. To avoid treasure seekers following them, they hire out as a Pilgrim ship. Pilgrims are humans who want to return to Earth, thinking that they will be integrated with the AI. No one, or even any information, has ever returned from a Pilgrimage. They are successful at dropping the pilgrims of in the Sol system and at picking up the treasure.

On their way home they run into an eruption of the war between AI and humans. They are used as bait by the Fusion navy, who uses a new secret weapon to wipe out the Betrayers. Michigan marries the mechanic on the Torchship and is instructed to inform the captain of the ship on her secret military status.

My Thoughts:

This was science fiction in the vein of Heinlein, what with the slide rules, etc. Gallagher did a good job of revealing information about the existing universe without me feeling like he was infodumping OR with-holding info “because of reasons”.

I was not expecting the various adventures format, so it threw me at first but once I realized what was going on, it was enjoyable.

In regards to Michie, there is a lot of hints but very little concrete. I figure the next 2 books will delve more into what is going on with her. This book felt like an introduction to her, the crew & ship and the existing universe in general.

There was a little side plot about the scientist she rescues at the beginning running through the book and I figure since he's into AI that he'll be central to defeating the Betrayers if that is the route Gallagher takes us. I hope so because I LOVE humans vs AI stories where humans kick some silicon butt.

The nice thing is that I already know this is a trilogy, so no cliffhangers for me!

★★★☆½ ( )
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