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Angel's Luck #1
Desperate Measures
Vintage paperback
- GenresScience Fiction
245 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
About the author
Joe Clifford Faust
37 books29 followersJoe Clifford Faust is an American author best known for his seven science fiction novels primarily written during the 1980s and 1990s, including A Death of Honor, The Company Man, the Angel's Luck Trilogy (all published by Del Rey Books), and the satirical Pembroke Hall novels (published by Bantam Spectra). His novels are known for their tightly controlled plots and their sense of humor. Like many authors, he draws inspiration from previous and current occupations, including projectionist, record store clerk, radio announcer, sheriff's dispatcher, and advertising copywriter. He currently works in advertising, but keeps his hand in writing and through other creative projects such as occasional forays into cartooning and songwriting.
On February 16, 2011, Faust announced on his blog that he had created a publishing company called Thief Media as an organ to distribute his out-of-print novels in ebook formats. Releases are scheduled to begin in March 2011 with "A Death of Honor" and will include two previously unpublished novels, "The Mushroom Shift" and "Trust."
On February 16, 2011, Faust announced on his blog that he had created a publishing company called Thief Media as an organ to distribute his out-of-print novels in ebook formats. Releases are scheduled to begin in March 2011 with "A Death of Honor" and will include two previously unpublished novels, "The Mushroom Shift" and "Trust."
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
February 20, 2020
Loved it. Tight plotting, funny, inventive.
May 22, 2015
This is a small book where almost nothing happens. It’s a play on a space heist storyline, which holds a lot of promise.
The book has a flippant tone without ever being satirical. The whole things reads like a formula cliché. The majority of the characters are formulaic and 2 dimensional. The woman are either promiscuous, shrew-like, or both. The men are generally clueless and stupid.
The old trope of “Everything could be resolved if the characters talked to each other” is so over used that it seems the only way the author can build tension.
I was looking for a good old space romp with some shenanigans, what I got was 250 pages of bland characters, insulting stereotypes, and weak plot.
The book has a flippant tone without ever being satirical. The whole things reads like a formula cliché. The majority of the characters are formulaic and 2 dimensional. The woman are either promiscuous, shrew-like, or both. The men are generally clueless and stupid.
The old trope of “Everything could be resolved if the characters talked to each other” is so over used that it seems the only way the author can build tension.
I was looking for a good old space romp with some shenanigans, what I got was 250 pages of bland characters, insulting stereotypes, and weak plot.
May 22, 2022
Amazing read! Very fun and compelling narrative that sucks you into the world of space trucking, revealing the harsh underbelly of the colonized cosmos and spearheading you into the seedy side of galactic business.
August 28, 2023
Very fun, space heist-ing romp. Merchanting, capering, heroing, I read it in 2 chunks, and unashamedly giggled out loud several times.
January 29, 2017
One of those fascinating sci-fi smuggler books, along the same lines as Andre Norton's The Zero Stone and C.J. Cherryh's Merchanter's Luck, but with a lick of grit and a lot of tongue-in-cheek humour spicing the action.
March 7, 2011
This book is intelligent and hilarious from cover to cover!
July 19, 2013
Fun scifi - book 1 of 3 - fun read
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews