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    Starship: Flagship

    By Mike Resnick

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    The date is 1970 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, finds itself in an all-out war against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man’s growing military and economic power. The rebel starship, the Theodore Roosevelt, under the command of Wilson Cole, is preparing to lead Cole’s ragtag armada into the Republic, even though he is outnumbered thousands to one. Cole is convinced that the government has become an arrogant and unfeeling political entity and must be overthrown. The trick is to avoid armed conflict with the vast array of ships, numbering in the millions, in the Republic’s Navy. For a time Cole’s forces strike from cover and race off to safety, but he soon sees that is no way to conquer the mightiest political and military machine in the history of the galaxy. He realizes that he must reach Deluros VIII, the headquarters world of the Republic (and of the race of Man), in order to have any effect on the government at all – but Deluros VIII is the best-protected world in the Republic. But a new threat looms on the horizon. Cole, the Valkyrie, David Copperfield, Sharon Blacksmith, Jacovic, and the rest of the crew of the Teddy R face their greatest challenge yet, and the outcome will determine the fate of the entire galaxy. From the Hardcover edition.
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    PublisherPyr
    Release dateAug 5, 2010
    ISBN9781591028529
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    Mike Resnick

    Mike Resnick was a prolific and highly regarded science fiction writer and editor. His popularity and writing skills are evidenced by his thirty-seven nominations for the highly coveted Hugo award. He won it five times, as well as a plethora of other awards from around the world, including from Japan, Poland, France and Spain for his stories translated into various languages. He was the guest of honor at Chicon 7, the executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe and the editor and co-creator of Galaxy's Edge magazine. The Mike Resnick Award for Short Fiction was established in 2021 in his honor by Galaxy’s Edge magazine in partnership with Dragon Con.

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    • 2/5
      This series is not especially colorful or convincing, which was part of its early volumes' charm; but this last book is disappointingly bland and preposterous even in the series' own terms. Then, too, the 'torture 'debate' was extremely simplistic (as was the commentary on it in the 'ethics' appendix), out of character with the series, and irrelevant to the narrative: in other words, a poor choice for a plot element. At the end of each of the first four books I was eager to read the next; at the end of this one, I was relieved that the series has ended. Very unsatisfying.
    • 4/5
      Flagship concludes Resnick's Starship series, which follows Captain Wilson Cole and the crew of the Teddy R. After being set against navy ships in Rebel, Cole decides to take the fight to the heart of the true problem-- the Republic capital Deluros VIII. Once against up against almost impossible odds, Cole relies on sideways thinking, a well deployed team, and gall that the powers that be would never expect in order to topple the top of the government itself. With new enemies, more shades of gray, and a conclusion fitting for the end of this documented portion of Cole's career, Flagship is exactly what fans of the first four books will expect and enjoy.
    • 1/5
      One-dimensional characters in a five-book-series space opera with dialog that seems to be copied&pasted from volume 1 to volume 5 and with significant continuity issues (a dead character comes back to life, unexplained). I am exceedingly grateful for Overdrive; these books came via my local library, not my pocketbook.

      If read as a standalone book, I'm guessing this book (Starship: Flagship) would be more palatable, since I thought book 1 was enjoyable if lightweight. (Think cotton candy - it's sweet and we keep eating it even though we know it's bad for us.)

      However, as the culmination of a five-book series, it's a major ugh in part because the dialog has become increasingly tiresome. And there's suspension of disbelief -- something essential to reading space operas with faster-than-light travel -- and then there's an unacceptable level Suspension of Disbelief required when the parameters of a universe are inexplicably changed, as others have pointed out.

      I know Mike Resnick because of Galaxy's Edge Magazine. I had not read any of Resnick's books until this series. It's doubtful that I will try anything else if this series is representative.

      SPOILER: I was especially troubled by the torture episode on many levels, not just because Resnick takes the classic hypothetical "but what if N people will die" scenario and sticks it in the novel. This side story does not feel congruent with the character of Wilson Cole that Resnick has developed, the brain over brawn character. (I kept asking myself, why isn't Cole talking to this guy? If he can convince hundreds - thousands - of the merit of his case why not a single man?) This side story blithely ignores what we KNOW about torture: which is that human beings will eventually tell their torturers anything to get them to stop the torture.
    • 1/5
      Resnick bites off more than he can chew. Like an intimate off-Broadway play, the plots and characters, while effective in a small setting, cannot be effectively scaled up. When he attempts to transfer Wilson Cole's personal story of moral rebellion to a grander galactic stage it falls flat.

      Whether you blame the odd digression into the definition and justification of torture, or the lack of any effectively developed new characters (i.e. Val in Pirate, the Duke in Mercenary, the Octopus in Rebel) or the inexplicable and indefensible Deus Ex Machina that hijacks the final act of the story, the cause is secondary to the effect; in the end Starship:Flagship is a disappointing conclusion to an enjoyable series.