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Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future (The Santiago Saga) (original 1986; edition 2022)

by Mike Resnick (Author)

Series: Santiago (1), Far Future History (2), Birthright (11)

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When you're the most wanted man alive, your legend never dies. An adventure of interplanetary law and disorder from the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author. Santiago is a legend, known far and wide across the galaxy as the greatest killer and thief alive. He's the subject of songs, the faceless wanted poster on the wall, the bogeyman that parents name to scare their children into behaving. And he's the target of every bounty hunter in the universe. Sebastian Nightingale Cain has quite the reputation himself. Known as the Songbird, he's a former revolutionary who has killed hundreds of criminals for the right price. But one has always eluded him: Santiago. Now, Cain has gotten a lead on the elusive outlaw, and it's too hard to resist. In a race against a rival bounty hunter, Cain's quest will take him to the far-flung Frontier planets, where he'll encounter aliens and evangelists, journalists and cyborgs--all of whom have a stake in finding or protecting Santiago. But unraveling the threads of Santiago's life might get Cain tangled up in something far bigger than he ever imagined . . .  "This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime, never-to-be-duplicated stories that ensnare you in such a wondrous universe that you never, ever want to leave. It will spawn a half dozen sequels and two dozen or more imitators that will feed on our enrapture . . . but there will be only one Santiago." --The Evening Sun… (more)
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Title:Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future (The Santiago Saga)
Authors:Mike Resnick (Author)
Info:Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (2022), 476 pages
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A really interesting set of characters; the colorful characters kept me reading to the very end, even though this sort of novel (kind of a wild west, transposed out into space) is not my usual favorite.

As you get further into the novel, you start to realize there are some interesting moral questions, which turn in the end into a fascinating conclusion. Not at all what I expected from this novel, but I liked it. A lot. ( )
  garyrholt | Nov 5, 2020 |
This is one of my all-time favorites. ( )
  erichtwade | Jun 20, 2016 |
This was one of the better of Resnick's stories. It's set in his regular quasi-Old West universe where everyone is colorful and somewhat larger than life. These have a samey-samey feel to them after a while but I enjoyed the fact that not everyone was what they seemed aspects of this story. ( )
  TadAD | Feb 12, 2011 |
Santiago is such a pleasure to read. It has some of the most colorful characters in a sci-fi novel that I have read. The plot is engaging and there is a decent twist at the end.
The book follows Sebastian Nightingale Cain, much to his anger called the Songbird. He is a bounty hunter on the trail of the most notorious outlaw on the space frontier. The book is interspersed, at the beginnings of chapters mostly, with the ballad of Black Orpheus, who writes about the various characters on the frontier. This is followed by a short few paragraphs with information on that character and the manner that Black Orpheus met them, which turns into an interesting way to introduce whoever shows up in that chapter.
Cain has to deal with other brigands and is in a race against the best known bounty hunter in the galaxy, the Angel. The pace of the story is quick and it is a very easy read. One could get through this book in a weekend, I think. 5/5 ( )
1 vote kainlane | Mar 25, 2009 |
Fairly simplistic science fiction folk tale with standard SF tech. Full review here. ( )
  mrawdon | Nov 9, 2008 |
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To Carol, as always.

And to my agent, Eleanor Wood,
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They say his father was a comet and his mother a cosmic wind, that he juggles planets as if they were feathers and wrestles with black holes just to work up an appetite. They say he never sleeps, and that his exes burn brighter than a nova, and that his shout can level mountains.
They call him Santiago.
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When you're the most wanted man alive, your legend never dies. An adventure of interplanetary law and disorder from the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author. Santiago is a legend, known far and wide across the galaxy as the greatest killer and thief alive. He's the subject of songs, the faceless wanted poster on the wall, the bogeyman that parents name to scare their children into behaving. And he's the target of every bounty hunter in the universe. Sebastian Nightingale Cain has quite the reputation himself. Known as the Songbird, he's a former revolutionary who has killed hundreds of criminals for the right price. But one has always eluded him: Santiago. Now, Cain has gotten a lead on the elusive outlaw, and it's too hard to resist. In a race against a rival bounty hunter, Cain's quest will take him to the far-flung Frontier planets, where he'll encounter aliens and evangelists, journalists and cyborgs--all of whom have a stake in finding or protecting Santiago. But unraveling the threads of Santiago's life might get Cain tangled up in something far bigger than he ever imagined . . .  "This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime, never-to-be-duplicated stories that ensnare you in such a wondrous universe that you never, ever want to leave. It will spawn a half dozen sequels and two dozen or more imitators that will feed on our enrapture . . . but there will be only one Santiago." --The Evening Sun

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