A Hunger in the Soul

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Summary: Entertaining but could have been better!!!
Review: Journalist, Grant Markham, is seeking immortality through fame by tracking down the missing scientist, Michael Drake, who has developed an antidote for a disease that is currently ravishing the universe and hasn't been seen for over 15 years. Taking a huge party of humans and Orange-eyes, they traverse the dangers of the planet Bushveld to see if the doctor still lives.

I found that the book has pretty much no character development whatsoever, except for the main antagonist, Grant Markham. He was the arrogant, rogue, gets everything he wants, killer journalist but you tend to find yourself liking him as he was the only one you knew anything about. All other characters are just one dimensional, they did have possibilities to become greatly remembered characters, but in the end were just a let down.

The planet Bushveld was a great place and well described with it's jungle/native settings. Alien types were good as well. The story tended to jump from days to weeks making it a very quick little jaunt that actually went for about a year. And although this is just a reinterpretation of the Stanley/Livingstone affair, only in space. There's really not much change in the story other than place/race/character names.

Overall, an entertaining, short read, with a bit of a shocking ending, but with a lot of dull characters and events and leaves you with the notion that it could have been so much better.

Rating:
Summary: A Hunger in the Soul is catching
Review: Journalist-adventurer Robert Markham is out to locate the vanished medical legend, Michael Drake. Markham recruits a medically retired desk-bound explorer-guide to lead him. Meanwhile the fabled Drake has secreted himself away among the natives on a world called Bushveld. This lush & verdant planet is renown for its isolation, its People, the varied & tribal Orange-Eyes & its huge creatures perfect for trophy hunting. This started out wry & dry & ended up a bit drab. Some truly interesting premises & awesome descriptions of a whole 'nother world! Worth the read. END

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Summary: The story of...Stanley & Livingstone...you've never read.
Review: Remember hearing about how Stanley found Livingstone? Remember the 1939 Spencer Tracy movie glorifying this "great" human effort? Well, hold onto your hats, folks! Here's the REAL story of how Stanley found Livingstone dressed in science fictional clothes. Stanley was not the great man popular sentiment and Hollywood has led us to believe he was. Hugo and Nebula award-winner Mike Resnick tells us the real story in a genre where the unusual, the cruel, and the vicious aren't subject to the political correctness so rampant in today's world. I recommend this book to any lover of science fiction AND truth.