{"id":1173,"date":"2015-12-09T21:40:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T03:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2015-12-09T21:40:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T03:40:38","slug":"breaking-someone-out-of-the-prison-in-antares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/breaking-someone-out-of-the-prison-in-antares\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Someone Out of The Prison in Antares<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Prison<\/a>The Prison in Antares<\/em><\/a>
\nMike Resnick<\/a>
\nPyr Books<\/a>
\nPaper, 287 p., $18.00\/$19.00 CAN
\nebook $11.99<\/p>\n

I’d like to thank the good folks at Pyr Books for sending me the review copy of The Prison in Antares<\/em>. \u00a0I think I enjoyed it more than its predecessor The Fortress in Orion<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dead Enders have barely recovered from their previous case when they’re called on to infiltrate a prison in the Transeki Coalition. \u00a0The Coalition has captured Edgar Nmumba. \u00a0Nmumba is the only person who knows how to counter the Q bomb, a devasting weapon that the Coalition has been using to wipe out entire planets.<\/p>\n

The prison is two miles below the surface of a planet behind enemy lines. \u00a0Initially that’s all they know. \u00a0They’ve got to locate the planet, then the prison, figure out a way to get in, and either get Nmumba out or kill him if they can’t. \u00a0And they’ve got to do it before Nmumba breaks under interrogation.<\/p>\n

This one was a little different. \u00a0In the previous book, all members of the team came home. \u00a0This time that’s not a guarantee. \u00a0This installment of the series is darker than I remember the previous installment being, and the problems to overcome are more challenging. \u00a0This is space opera for the thinking person.<\/p>\n

In the previous book, they came up with a plan and worked it. \u00a0Without giving anything away, there’s this old saying about the best laid plans…<\/p>\n

I really liked how things didn’t go well for the team at times. \u00a0It was clear that Resnick was having a great time writing this book because of all the creative things his characters had to do. Like I said in my review of The Fortress in Orion<\/em>, this was a fun book.<\/p>\n

Which is not to say it was a fluff book. \u00a0Resnick deals with some pretty serious themes in his work, and The Prison in Antares<\/em> is no exception. \u00a0There are times when the Dead Enders kill innocent people to achieve their objective. \u00a0If they succeed, they may save billions of lives. \u00a0If they fail, then people will die.<\/p>\n

Much of the book is dialogue, not detailed descriptions that go on for paragraphs. \u00a0As a result, the book is a quick, enjoyable read. \u00a0If you want to spend a few hours in a far future adventure, look no further than The Prison in Antares<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Prison in Antares Mike Resnick Pyr Books Paper, 287 p., $18.00\/$19.00 CAN ebook $11.99 I’d like to thank the good folks at Pyr Books for sending me the review copy of The Prison in Antares. \u00a0I think I enjoyed it more than its predecessor The Fortress in Orion. The Dead Enders have barely recovered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[761,722,791],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-resnick","category-pyr-books","tag-mike-resnick","tag-pyr-books-2","tag-the-dead-enders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-iV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}