The Captain by Will Wight
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

You know, I was a little cautious upon starting this. It just FELT like pulp SF schlock no matter how I looked at it.

And it absolutely f'n is.

It's not Star Wars. It's literally a collection of all the best, most OP magical tropes like collecting all the memories of re-lived lives, becoming versions of multiple arch-mages, and then setting off to right all the most horrible mistakes across the galaxy as an ultimate space-wizard--with the specific addition of a world-killing world-mind-powered intelligent spaceship that levels up based on the quality of the crew it... um... consumes.

So, yeah, adventure happens. On very, very schlocky scales. Legions of foes destroyed. Whole systems. And the captain and the ship still needs to find more crew.

Muahahahahahahaha

I admit I was a bit worried--at first.

But the balance of the narrative Force was maintained. :)

It absolutely helps that the author knows his genres and all the things he's borrowing and even nods at them as he makes one hell of cool SF pulp space opera his very own thing.

It's no high literature. But it IS very fun. OP fun. The good guys defeat the bad guys. Ahem. Reminds me of something someone said about how we should always fear the Hero. Heroes kill more than any villain ever could. :)

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