Despite the anti-slavery laws of his native planet, he’s quickly maneuvered into buying her, then her two younger sisters. Still, he can’t resist helping someone in trouble, especially when that someone is an apparently helpless teenage slave girl. For instance, we find out quite early in the book that he faked a log entry about a desperate fight against pirates when he actually just spent a few hours blowing up asteroids - partly to test his ship’s guns, partly for the fun of it. The book itself is less a space opera than a space operetta - it never takes itself too seriously - but it’s still distinctly an adventure story, not a straight-up comedy.Ĭaptain Pausert is a decent and friendly man, perhaps a touch too in love with his notion of himself as a square-jawed space adventurer. The setting seems designed for multiple adventures. I’m not surprised The Witches of Karres feels like it should have been a series all along. I decided to review The Witches of Karres mostly because I remember seeing some sequels, written by different authors, as James H.
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