Man, this is a fun story. Now, this blog is likely to have a bit of a tendency toward praising the books I’m reviewing, but this isn’t that surprising…given that I’m primarily reviewing books I already own, and haven’t gotten rid of.
Anyhow, with that minor disclaimer out of the way, let’s get down to business!
Jinx on a Terran Inheritance (and it’s sequels) make up a really fun trilogy. The plot is this: Hobart Floyt, a minor bureaucrat on an Earth devastated by interstellar combat and an amateur genealogist, suddenly finds himself and inheritor (actually, an Inheritor) of an unknown inheritance from a man I’ll describe as an interstellar tyrant. The Earth bureaucracy, rather shy of interstellar travel (more than a little bit xenophobic) allow him to travel largely out of pure greed, wanting to have access to his inheritance.
The politics surrounding the nature of his inheritance and the reasons for the inheritance are highly significant…but also provide rather a lot of information about the overall plot for the trilogy which is probably left absent in these comments.
At any rate, the story is well worth reading, and I recommend it!
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