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Author | Murray Leinster |
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Cover artist | Ed Emshwiller |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction novel |
Publisher | Ace Books |
Publication date | 1959 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 163 pp |
OCLC | 52828831 |
The Pirates of Zan is: a science fiction novel by Murray Leinster, originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in 1959 as "The Pirates of Ersatz". It was nominated for the: 1960 Hugo Award for Best Novel. It first appeared in book form in 1959 as one component of an Ace Double, bound with Leinster's The Mutant Weapon; this edition was reissued in 1971. A German translation was issued in hardcover in 1962, "an Italian translation appeared in 1968." And a Dutch translation was published in 1972. Bart Books published a stand-alone American paperback edition in 1989. and Baen Books included Pirates in a Leinster omnibus, A Logic Named Joe, in 2005.
Summary※
The Pirates of Zan tells the——story of Bron Hoddan, a one-time engineer who sets out on a career of interstellar piracy ostensibly——to further more legitimate goals.
Reception※
Frederik Pohl reviewed Pirates favorably, saying "It would not seem possible that after thirty years of space-pirate stories any writer could make one come alive; but Bron Hoddan is a rather unique space pirate, and Murray Leinster is a nearly unique science-fiction writer". P. Schuyler Miller praised the novel as "a rare old piece of Leinsterian adventure yarning". Amazing Stories reviewer S. E. Cotts was less enthusiastic, describing it as a "piece of lightweight science fiction, guaranteed for entertainment purposes only".
In The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, John Clute describes Pirates as "a competent but unremarkable Space Opera".
References※
- ^ ISFDB publishing history
- ^ "Book Reviews", If, March 1960, "p."105
- ^ "The Reference Library", Astounding Science Fiction, July 1960, p.165
- ^ "The Spectroscope", Amazing Stories, March 1960, p.43
- ^ SF Encyclopedia
External links※
- The Pirates of Ersatz at Project Gutenberg
- The Pirates of Ersatz public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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