Space Vulture

by John J. Myers and Gary K. Wolf

Book Overview

After a lifetime of friendship, two small-town boys who grew to have very different lives and careers have teamed up to travel back in time and conquer the universe. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765318520
• ISBN13: 9780765318527
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic old-school Sci-fi!

I really can't recommend this highly enough. I saw it on clearance at a local bookstore and just from looking at the cover, couldn't say no. I will say that given that one of the authors is an archbishop, it is darker than I would have expected. For those of you who may be turned off when you see an archbishop is an author (I know I was), know that it really isn't that bad. There were a few parts where a paragraph or so got bogged down with religious nonsense that was obviously the work of Myers, but then it was back to quality sci-fi. There are many parts where undefined alien technology is casually mentioned. I love it, though some may find it cheesy, but hey, if you don't want cheesy, you aren't the target demographic for old-school sci-fi. ;) The day after I finished it (which took only two days because I couldn't put the book down... would have taken one day, but I guess my one month old daughter needed to eat) I loaned it to my sci-fi-loving father-in-law, because I *had* to share this brilliant book. Stop reading this and buy it. Now.

Don't Listen to the Nay Sayers!

A couple of reviews for this book decried how amateurish and unbelievable this book was. WELL OF COURSE, BUT YOU'RE MISSING THE POINT!!!! It is meant as a homage to a style of science fiction that is long gone, but from which many of the ideas and stories of today's sci-fi took root. Enjoy it on its own terms, and for the simple morality play it presents (good vs evil, a bad man who learns how to be good from a child, etc.). It isn't profound reading but it doesn't try to pretend to be anything but what it is. I hope there will be a sequel with the Space Vulture returning to wreak his revenge. As funny as this may sound, I came to really like the characters and hope to find out more about them in future stories. Isn't this how we measure the success of any novel? Jack

Space Vulture: A Review

I've read a very wide range of science fiction, and this is the most amazing single work of science fiction written in the past five years. It has strong roots in the older science fiction of the 1930s and 40s.

Good old-fashioned fun SF

This book is a throwback to an earlier era when science fiction authors aimed at writing an entertaining yarn purely for the reader's amusement. The authors here don't try to bring you up-to-date on the most recent speculations about future science or technology, nor do they try to persuade you to adopt a viewpoint about the moral status of machines or aliens or biological technologies that still can only be encountered in your imagination; and really, why should the reader furnish his mind with ideas that come from a science fiction author? Wolf and Myers just try to tell a good story, and at this they succeed. I hope they prosper at it, and write sequels, and inspire imitators.

SF The Way It Used To Be

Space Vulture by Wolf & Myers is a tour-de-force of space opera iconography. If you're tired of 'literary' sf, if you're sense of wonder is fading, if you've been finding it difficult to willingly suspend your disbelief - Space Vulture is the answer! A rousing adventure tale, a return to basics, and a solid argument against the kind of science fiction that wants to win academic awards instead of Hugos, if you like space opera or if you stopped buying new works in the 1980s, THIS novel is what you've been looking for.