![]() ![]() Too bad the whole thing bears such an uncomfortable resemblance to the short-lived but well-regarded TV series Firefly. There's plenty of action, derring-do, double-crossing, trickery and gore, though the human settlements the ship drifts through are uniformly drab, tawdry and depressing. Naturally it all goes horribly wrong, Frey finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy, and both sides want him dead. Frey, looking for easy money, accepts a dubious commission to hijack a valuable cargo. The piratical Frey cares only for himself and his ship his crew are the usual motley bunch of endearing rascals-a reckless pilot, a cowardly pilot, the requisite alcoholic doctor, a "daemonist" and his golem, a taciturn escaped slave and an undead navigator with developing superpowers-though all have well-developed histories. Such machines fly by the power of a magical gas and feature advanced explosive weapons, yet they don't even have radio. ![]() ![]() On an unnamed but seemingly boundless planet populated chiefly by aristocrats and outcasts-piracy is a popular career choice, perhaps because there's nothing much else to do-Darian Frey is the captain and proud owner of the flying machine Ketty Jay. Popular British YA author Wooding ( Havoc, 2010, etc.) makes his adult debut with this rollicking, picaresque steampunk fantasy. ![]()
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