Booklog 57/2021: Andre Norton & Sherwood Smith: Derelict for Trade – Solar Queen #6

[jacey]

It must be more than forty years since I last read one of Andre Norton's Solar Queen books, but I'm a bit of a fan so I was pleased to discover a more recent book in the series. Solar Queen is a cargo ship eking out a living tramping around known space, led by Captain Jellico and featuring a crew who have become found-family. Dane Thorson is apprentice to the cargomaster – though by the sixth book in the series, he's probably more than capable of doing the job himself. When the Solar Queen salvages a derelict ship their good fortune turns into a nightmare as Dane and his fellow crewmembers try to find out what happened to the crew of their derelict. Instead of concentrating on Dane Thorson, Ms Smith writes from multiple viewpoints and brings in the rest of the crew, even finding a hint of romance for Jellico. The first four in the Solar Queen series were written by Norton herself, but from Book 5 onwards they are a collaboration. I picked this one because it's by Sherwood Smith, whose writing I enjoy. There's much more Smith than Norton in here, but that's no bad thing.

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[sartorias]

:-D

[jacey]

You're welcome.