You haven't read it? I believe there are two novels, actually, and I can never recall if I've read them both or not (especially since I keep getting it mixed up with the Widowmaker series). Hang on
*goes off to look for my copy, as I apparently no longer have the intro memorized*
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*and returns, having failed in my quest* Damnit, I need a better-- ok, any-- system of organization for my books.
I apologize for the probably misquoting, but "Santiago" begins something like this: "They saw his father was a comet and his mother was a cosmic wind. They say he juggles black holes in his bare hands..."
Anyways, he's sort of an intergalactic Paul Bunyan. I grant that Resnick's writing is not to everyone's taste, but I think he's got a real knack for space westerns (not to mention an excellent sense of the absurd, as demonstrated in his book of short stories, "Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun?")
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Date: 2008-06-02 02:38 am (UTC)*goes off to look for my copy, as I apparently no longer have the intro memorized*
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*and returns, having failed in my quest*
Damnit, I need a better-- ok, any-- system of organization for my books.
I apologize for the probably misquoting, but "Santiago" begins something like this: "They saw his father was a comet and his mother was a cosmic wind. They say he juggles black holes in his bare hands..."
Anyways, he's sort of an intergalactic Paul Bunyan. I grant that Resnick's writing is not to everyone's taste, but I think he's got a real knack for space westerns (not to mention an excellent sense of the absurd, as demonstrated in his book of short stories, "Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun?")