Tom Paine Maru

by L. Neil Smith

Book Overview

Whitey O Thraight, the Ship s Armorer on the first interstellar vessel launched by his home planet Vespucci, finds himself stranded on a strange planet with just one other survivor. Captured by the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 034529243X
• ISBN13: 9780345292438
• Release Date: July 1984
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

THOMAS PAIN MARU

I ENJOYED THE BOOK. I WISH I COULD FIND THE OTHER BOOKS WHICH ARE PART OF "THE BRIGHT SUITE" SERIES.

Times were tough...

Corporal Whitey O'Thraight came from a harsh planet, a planet that sent him, and the rest of the crew, to look for a better planet. But the Asperance's first voyage is its last when just a few hours after landing most of his people are killed by the savages (who are living in their version of the Middle Ages). It seems he has the choice between being burned at the stake or just tortured. But then he is freed by the crew of the Tom Paine Maru. And then things get dangerous. A great book, kind of a sequel to The Venus Belt. It can stand alone, all you have to do is read enough of it to get the basic background. Set in The Probability Broach universe, so lots of surprises and a interesting setting.

You will renew your enjoyment of L. Neil Smith

While set in the Other world of Freedoms and Personal Rights. It will catch you up on the families you first meet in the "The Probability Broach". It will open your mind if you would allow it to, making you look around and say why are we not more like that.