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Available
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Publication
KL&MM Books
Description
Sandy Santiago is a woman with a whole lot of problems. She's ordered to replace Kris Longknife, but can any mere mortal fill the shoes of a Longknife, and Kris Longknife most of all? Follow Sandy as she's introduced to the mess on Canopus Station. Watch her as she meets cats (with nuclear weapons!) and birds and vicious alien raiders. Oh, and she has to share Alwa Station with Rita Nuu Longknife. How does a gal get so lucky?
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
A short novel (not the little bits he's mostly been putting out, but a full story) of Admiral Sandy Santiago after she takes over from Kris out at Alwa. It's mildly interesting; Sandy is a character I've wanted to know more about, though she's a little obsessed with "those damn Longknifes". For
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good reason, but still. And even so she lets Granny Rita bushwhack her - her side of what we also see in Kris Longknife's Maid Goes on Strike. Unfortunately, going indie hasn't helped Shepherd's editing any - at one point, in a conference with her officers, "But, Admiral -" Sandy said....um, Sandy's the only admiral around. And ships are still "breaking" into orbit, and so on. Oh, and missing quote marks, usually at the end of a paragraph. The story is pretty good, the editing is annoying (though going indie doesn't seem to have _hurt_ his editing any, his traditionally published books had the same kind of screwups). Sandy goes to visit the cats (and gets kidnapped - not sure what was going on there), fights aliens, fights more aliens, goes home and gets sideswiped by Granny Rita, things kind of dribble off...and she ends up muttering about filling Kris Longknife's godlike shoes. Glad I read it, I guess, no reason for me to ever reread. But I do want to read the next one. Show Less
Original publication date
2017-07
Local notes
Kris Longknife,
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