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Another of the books by instalment I've been reading via Daily Lit, this is one of Norton's Solar Queen stories, recently also appearing on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doc_mystery's blog here. Once again Dane Thorson and the crew of the Solar Queen stumble into trouble along the space ways, this time posted as a plague ship and listed as fair game throughout Terran Space. Awkward to say the least.
Unsurprisingly, the crew of the Queen manage to save the day - and more importantly the cargo - after adventures aplenty. Images of Traveller sessions passed through my mind's eye as I read.
This was perfectly adapted to the short instalments from Daily Lit, though I found myself reading in burst, catching up once a week with the most recent parts.
doc_mystery's blog here. Once again Dane Thorson and the crew of the Solar Queen stumble into trouble along the space ways, this time posted as a plague ship and listed as fair game throughout Terran Space. Awkward to say the least.Unsurprisingly, the crew of the Queen manage to save the day - and more importantly the cargo - after adventures aplenty. Images of Traveller sessions passed through my mind's eye as I read.
This was perfectly adapted to the short instalments from Daily Lit, though I found myself reading in burst, catching up once a week with the most recent parts.
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(mild spoiler)
I seem to remember how Dane and some of the other members of the Solar Queen manage to make it to Earth, and travel across and through ruins that dot the the now mostly uninhabited parts of North America (thanks to an old 'hot' war), as they seize a broadcast centre to state their case they weren't victims of a plague after all.
The Solar Queen books seem to be either in a universe different from many of her other SF works, else set much earlier.
The setting is about 1000 years from today, but hyperdrive in its current form has only existed for 500 years. Terra still exists, and there seems have been a recent "Crater War" with Mars, but despite the familiar Norton SF tropes of Free Traders and Survey & Patrol vessels, there is no mention of any advanced aliens races such as appear in The Zero Stone, Moon of Three Rings, Catseye, etc., nor such elements as the Thieves Guild, the lingua galactica of Basic, etc..
There is the mention of duocorns in either book 3 or 4, making me think this universe setting overlaps with The Stars of Ours and Star Born setting.
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