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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 For Buffy, Firefly, and Battlestar Fans!!! May 13, 2009
By Chris Vaglio
Doris Daring is a refreshing read! It flows very well and is a lot of fun right from the opening chapter. It is also the right size to stick in your back pocket. The characters has that camaraderie that we all have fallen in love with from Star Wars to Buffy to Firefly. I highly recomend this book for anyone who likes their sci-fi with a fresh approach and an open mind.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Doris Daring is great!!! Aug 12, 2009
By Grey Sky Productions
"Mark Serao"
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Amazing Find May 12, 2009
By Misty Layne
"But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?'"
What a fabulous find this was! I randomly found this through a blog I read and decided to check it out and I'm so glad I did. The story is great-high energy, fast paced, a complete throwback to the pulp novels of the 30s and 40s (of which I am a fan!). The characters are fun, well-rounded, and draw you into the story. And the adventures of the captain and crew are many.
I highly recommend this book if you're a fan of sci-fi or pulp novels or both! And I'll definitely be on the hunt for more works by this author. :)
Very Enjoyable! Feb 20, 2011
By Robert Lindstrom
An exciting space adventure story featuring some very likeable
characters with alternative lifestyles. The characters
are well developed and realistic with both strengths and flaws
exposed making them even more endearing to the reader. The story
has a good mix of sci-fi, action and humor and flows along nicely.
I'll be looking forward to more adventures for Doris Daring!
 More Pulp than Substance Feb 17, 2011
By Inversius Aurelius
The best thing about the title is the price, the worst thing is the unrefundable hours of your life spent reading it.
While you would not expect a great deal of depth in retro-pulp attempt, the heart of the genre was always the gritty atmosphere. What you get here in place of atmosphere (or character developmenet, original ideas and plot for that matter) is a plod through a series of situational set pieces, each having all the depth of a back drop in high school musical.
It is not as if there was lack of opportunity. The story describes a good number of space-battles and skirmishes for example, giving ample opportunity for emotional engagement. Rather than use these scenes to build tension and define characters however, each instance of conflict is usually dispatched with a general description and with the outcome never in doubt. The few personal vignettes offered remain a mere description of actions (he does this, then this, then this...) without believable motivation or emotional energy, again with the outcome never in doubt.
While I understand that the use of pulp fiction archetypes was part of the point of this tale, they are paraded in such a wooden setting as to seem merely like a lack of originality. The characters all spoke with one voice (the author's presumably)and were so devoid of depth and development as to preclude any degree of reader empathy. With one character in particular there was a great opportunity to explore the nature of addiction, or at least get some pulp noir grit happening, but again it was squandered - reduced to a moralistic blame-the-victim piece, while said victim woodenly steps through the motions of his role with no more pathos or believable emotion than the hero's robot.
The robot at least had an excuse.
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