Book Description: Book # 2 in the best selling Helmsman saga!
Ursis nodded soberly out the Hyperscreens toward the merchant ships, then turned to Brim. "Out there, Wilf Ansor," he brooded, "are real heroes of war. To fight from behind disruptors of warship is something anyone can do. One can always count on lucky shooting to save him from disaster—or heavy armor plate at least. But to face enemy with only black void and thin sheet of hullmetal separating you from disruptors—and then stay in formation—that is kind of bravery we Sodeskayans record in Great Books."
hooray for bill baldwin I think that Bill has a great dramatic sense in writing for thios series...I heard it on XM and loved the first book and bought the second...I'll get the 3rd and beyond soon...
Great Book !! Ohhhh I want more of this series!! I finished it in about 15 hours of reading(about 3 days and an all nighter) Could not put it down..
An upbeat, galaxy-spanning adventure The second novel in Bill Baldwin's heady sci-fi "Helmsman Saga", Galactic Convoy is an action-packed saga filled from cover to cover with intrigue, deadly spaceship battles, and abiding bonds of friendship forged through troubled times. An upbeat, galaxy-spanning adventure, as thrilling as the futuristic cover art by Hugo Award winning author/artist Ron Miller, Galactic Convoy documents Bill Baldwin as a master of the science fiction action/adventure genre and a welcome read for any and all sci-fi enthusiasts!
New and updated As of November, 2003 this book has been published in a new directors cut edition, in hardback. The original book was one of my favorite of all time, and this time Bill Baldwin has greatly imporved the story, cleaning up a few loose ends and fleshing out some of the other parts of the story. I have always felt this was the best book of the series and this version is even better! In this book, Wilf, and his comrades Uris, Barbousse and the rest are in a new starship, helping to guard convoys bringing needed suppies to a giant base in another part of the universe, and both the convoys and the base are under constant attack by Nergol Triannic's evil forces. It strikes me as if based on the British convoys to beleagured Malta in the Med in WWII. An exciting story, lots of combat, a new romantic interest, new shipmates, just a dang good entertaining fantasy/scifi novel!
An old favorite This was my first Baldwin book, and because of that, probably one of my favorites. I paid 99cents for this book, and it quickly prompted me to find and buy the other books in the series.
Baldwin continues to develop the character of Wilf Brim, as well as the universe in which he lives. This development stage quickly levels off in the series, but in Galactic Convoy it's done very well both with the characters and the technology.
This book (as would others in the series) does very well as a stand-alone as well. You need not have read the first book to know what was going on. This a great contrast from writers such as Robert Jordan who write one long story. With Baldwin you can pick up any book in the series and it's a whole story, and while you may not get some of the references, it's still an enjoyable read.
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