Elite

nemorensis

176 pages

English language

Published Dec. 17, 2014 by Gollancz.

ISBN:
978-1-4732-0126-2
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OCLC Number:
879244558

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Two lovers steal a spaceship and go on the run, attacking at random and revelling in the fame and glory their violence brings them. Celebrated by the jaded youth of the Federation and urged on to ever more flashy acts of destruction, they know it won't be long before they are caught and killed. But someone is following the couple. Someone who knows why they are so obsessed with each other. Who knows where they are heading. Who knows why. Someone who knows more about them than they do themselves. And has another plan for their deaths...

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Review of 'Elite' on 'Goodreads'

I am quite disappointed.
This book (goodreads description sais 192 pages while it had only 82 on the google play reading app on my Nexus 7, which has about book size) has several problems:
The author seems to believe too much in Sex sells, which might be true, if this wasn't a book belonging to a sci-fi game. As such I would have appreciated if those 82 pages would have had any other relation to the game than dropping a few replaceable names within an fantasy story that could have been told in any world.
The only reason I'm giving this two stars is that I enjoyed reading out loud the sometimes quite complex constructs of language that the author managed to create.

Subjects

  • Space vehicles
  • Fugitives from justice
  • Fiction