Lupus

A couple of gadabouts bop around the galaxy in their spaceship looking for great fishing holes and lots of drugs. But when they take aboard a sexy young runaway girl, they find themselves targeted by thugs hired by her powerful father. Violence ensues, and then they are on the run through outer space, crossing paths with colorful characters during their search for a safe haven.

This book is sort of an inversion of typical action movies that have slam-bang adventure broken up by brief interludes of calm and reflection. The interludes go on forever and eventually take over so much that the last bit of action basically happens offscreen. Frankly, the characters aren't interesting enough to merit all this time to reflect.

Total snoozefest. show more But I should have expected as much from Euro science fiction, since I have such a poor track record with that garbage. show less

Simply amazing, both the story and visually. This is what science-fiction is really about for me, no matter which year, no matter where in the universe, it's about life and its consequences.

Lupus and Tony are travelling across the universe, officially in a fishing trip, unofficially, sampling as many drugs as they can. As Lupus says, maybe they are taking so many drugs so that they don't notice that they are not that close anymore. In one of the many planets they visit, they meet Sanaa, a beautiful girl that wants to leave the planet and asks them to take her with them. Although Sanaa tells them that she brings trouble, they do not realise up to which point that is true. The rest of the book is spent running away, with one brilliant show more stop in a retirement planet where they meet some friends. show less

An down to earth space opera...I could've done with a bit more epic and a little less earth.