This book was... just ok. It does not add anything new to the genre and, honesty, the mix between different genres it's weird and unnecessary.

But it was a fast read and worked to take my mind from the last book I've read and make it a blank canvas for my next read.

Kind of weird, with the magic going ons, but an exciting tale.

Warning: the "voodoo" in the title is not metaphorical. This is literally "The Solar Queen Goes to Africa Planet" complete with wild game roughly analogous to elephants and lions and a witch doctor who hypnotizes people into seeing things that aren't there ... until one of the earth men beats him at

As a young teenager, this book was impossible to find in the UK. I first read it as an adult, much much later, when I bought it in hard back (and Captain Jellico went by another namer - although I have no idea why or how).

I didn't really like on first read, I think because I found the world and soc

Ummm... yeah. Sometimes a writer of fantastic stories can go a bit too far into Saturday morning cartoon territory. The third entry of the Solar Queen series has the working-class interplanetary tradesmen ending up on a jungle planet where the powers of voodoo are very real and they get caught up in

This is an entertaining, quick, vintage sci fi.

There are less than a handful of crew on the Solar Queen as it starts a demoted trek from trade to international a mail carrier. Before their route begins, they are visited by a chief ranger seeking help on his home planet Khatka. Khatka is a colony pl

Good classic SiFi story my one of the masters of the Genre. Recommended