Fugitive in Transit

By Edward Llewellyn

Book Overview

Fugitive in Transit (Daw science fiction) This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0886770025
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: DAW
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A nice old-fashioned romantic sf-adventure

-----------------------------------------------------------This is a nice old-fashioned romantic sf-adventure. Ruth Thalia Adams, aka Alia is on the run from the Galactic Transit Authority, which operates a subspace subway system that we Earthlings literally fell into. Alia, who looks and acts like a Greek goddess, meets classics professor Peter Ward at a ruined temple to Aphrodite. They make mad, passionate love, and Peter learns that Thalia won a fortune as a diamond prospector on Nuerth, a colony world reluctantly granted to Earth by the stuffy Auld, who run the Transit Authority.Anyway, Thalia goes on, twitting the staid Auld rulers, especially the Galactic Marshall who's hot on her tail. Revelations ensue that won't surprise the experienced reader, but it's a likeable book with likeable (if two-dimensional) characters -- lthough Thalia/Alia can be pretty cold-hearted.This is one of two Llewellyn novels published posthumously (he died in 1984).He's been almost forgotten, but if you have a taste for old-fashioned romantic SF, Fugitive wouldn't be a bad place to start.Happy reading!Pete Tillman