Nimisha's Ship (Bookcassette(r) Edition)

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Summary: Good Story, could be the beginning of a new Nimisha series
Review: While I enjoyed the book greatly, feel it is one of McCaffrey's better "technologically advanced" stories and finished it in one day, I can see where jbandsm and Mich,USA are coming from (sort of). Yes Mich, USA, Nimisha is not the sort of woman who will stay in one place and sedately take whatever life dishes out to her and wait for someone to "rescue" her. But she did do what she does best, take the bull by the horns and charge full speed ahead. You have to remember the worm hole dumped her in an area of UNCHARTED space and once there she and her "Helm" had no idea which way to head for home. Her only hope was to release the homing beacon and hope it reached "civilized space". As it is, according to Caleb, the Navy thought that she would have put herself in "coldsleep" for the period of time it took for someone, anyone to find her distress beacon, and she DIDN'T do that now did she. Yes this story has elements of Star Trek, Voyager, and other sci-fi TV shows but it also has elements of Heinlen, Vonnegut and Asimov stories which makes it all the better. Personally I believe the story needed to be a little longer so we could have some more character development but it reads as good and as complete as any Pern book or ship book McCaffrey has written. This could be the beginning of something great!

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Summary: Readable
Review: _Nimsha's Ship is a VERY standard "lost in space" plot and if she'd bothered to put any *people* it, it would be ok reading. She's populated it, however, with tissue-thin paper puppets without even the advantages of the Balinese or Japanese prototypes which have at least some historical personality. Oh, it's not going to be any trouble to finish it. The actual order of words is professional -- and it certainly isn't burdened with anything new or different to cause indigestion. My greatest regret is that I paid book club prices for it. This is strictly a UBS item.* To top it off, the cover art is awful.