Trafalgar

a novel

183 pages

English language

Published April 18, 2013 by Small Beer Press, Distributed to the trade by Consortium.

ISBN:
978-1-61873-032-9
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OCLC Number:
783151803

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4 stars (4 reviews)

Nobody knows if Trafalgar Medrano actually travels to the stars, but whenever he is in town he stretches his stories out over at least seven coffees and everyone knows he is the best storyteller in town.

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3 stars

Trafalgar has got to be one of the weirdest books I have read in quite some time and it's one that is difficult to describe in a way that really does it justice. It's a series of short stories recounting the spacewide adventures of Trafalgar Medrano, yes, but without much in the way of technical information that would characterise a science fiction novel these days. Trafalgar flies between various worlds in his Clunker spaceship, but we never get to find out how it works or, indeed, how he can travel such vast distances in the short periods of time his travels last. No one else, it seems, has ever seen the Clunker, but the Rosario locals enjoy sitting back with a whiskey to listen to his latest unbelievable adventure. I suppose I can best evoke Trafalgar by saying it's a blend of the The Old Man in the Corner by …

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Subjects

  • Interplanetary voyages
  • Businessmen
  • Space and time
  • Fiction