It’s rare that I am disappointed by a Mike Resnick book. Resnick first and foremost tells stories. Along the way he occasionally has a moral. Starship: Mutiny is the first book in a five book series by Pyr a new S.F. imprint from Prometheus Books. New to me at least. The story is set in Resnick’s Birthright
universe, toward the end of the Republic era. The protagonist is Wilson Cole, a hero in the Republic’s war against the Teroni alliance. While he’s a hero, it’s always been at the expense of the navy’s image and sometimes against orders. At the start of the book, he’s been demoted and exiled to the Teddy Roosevelt a decrepit ship with a crew no one wants. Theoretically, nothing should be happening in the sector the Teddy R. patrols, but inevitably, Cole discovers something. The captain and first officer are hostile to him, so he takes matters into his own hands, in the process defeating a Teroni incursion onto a Republic world. Things don’t go much differently on the second assignment either. Cole is constantly fighting the brass above the the dereliction of the men below. Resnick writes about larger than life characters. Wilson Cole has brilliant analytical capabilities and manages to turn every situation to his advantage. Unlike in other Resnick books, there aren’t a plethora of other larger than life character and that’s a bit of a change.
Title: Starship: mutiny
Author: Mike Resnick
Series: Starship ; 1
Imprint / publisher: Pyr / Perseus
Format: Hardcover
Length: 286 p.
Publication date: December 2005
ISBN-10: 1-59102-337-8
Subject: Space ships — Fiction
Subject: Mutiny — Fiction
LC classification: PS3568.E698 S735 2005
