On Sun, 02 Nov 2025 09:58:02 -0800, Robert Woodward
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robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
In article <10e7kea$i8q$1@panix2.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
Moon of Mutiny (Jim Stanley, volume 3) by Lester del Rey
Was Fred Halpern the boy space hero the papers believed him or the
headstrong fool his teachers saw?
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/free-falling
I have read this, but not the two earlier ones (the library didn't have >them).
I learned very early to always get a finished series in complete sets.
I learned when I read the first volume (of three, I think) of a French
novel (in English translation) about some little girl orphans who were
very very wealthy and under the control of Evil Jesuits, who were
after their fortune. And willing to kill them to get it.
But I don't know how it worked out: when I went back to the library to
turn the first volume in and get the next ... it wasn't there.
I later made an exception for Harry Potter, figuring that that series
would eventually finish as it was too popular to be abandoned. But I
made darn sure I had all three /Illuminati/ volumes in my hand when I
purchased them all at the same time.
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
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