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The faculty and staff of Butler University's College of Liberal
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Recommended Readings
Tau
4
by V. J. Waks, AuthorHouse 2007
Reviewed by George Geib
If you're a fan of authors who write in the
pulp tradition, you'll thoroughly enjoy Tau 4 -- a fine Bloomington
product. The book is a space opera that has so many of the things
that make for great popular entertainment: a mad scientist bent on
galactic domination, a sexy mutant heroine who often loses her
clothes but never her virtue, a pirate planet with a seedy
spaceport cantina, and a hero whose internal conflicts mirror the
beatings he keeps taking from almost everyone else in the cast. You
know that virtue will ultimately triumph, but you keep wondering
how. The sex and violence are PG-13, the pirate planet is a
cleverly conceived jungle world, and the writing is colorful and
fluent. Best of all, we're promised a sequel.
- George Geib is a professor of history at Butler
University.