A Mind For Trade

A Great New Solar Queen AdventureHesprid IV can't be that bad. Especially when it holds such a huge deposit of lucrative cielanite ore. Or so thinks Dane Thorson and the rest of the crew of the Solar Queen, and its new sister ship, the recently recovered derelict North Star. The plan seems simple --make landfall, mine ore, leave.But when huge electromagnetic monsoons strike, and a strange lifeform makes deadly attacks on the miners, the mining grinds almost to a halt. Then the real threat arrives: the crew of the North Star, long ago stranded here, wants off the planet... at any cost.It'll take every ounce of the Solar Queen crew's savvy and experience to make it off Hesprid IV with their lives, let alone a profit. And that's assuming they get past the pirates lying in wait on the far side of the star system...This is vintage Norton with a new hard edge. Forget all your preconceptions about collaborations. This is a wonderful blend ofstory-telling skills. Readers who began with Andre Norton can enjoy it all over again -- and a whole new generation of readers can discover what they've been missing until now. C. J. CHERRYHThe plot is tight, the suspense and action are continuous, the characters are as engaging as ever, and the whole book gives hardly a clue that the original concept dates back to the 1960s. Wow! BOOKLISTA delightful bit of SF. PUBLISHER