Skylark of Valeron review

This is the next novel in the series.  Yes Book three of four. The main characters are Seaton, Crane and Duquesne.  Well Seaton is a brainy scientist who has achieved ever more intelligence through the help of real brainy aliens..  Crane his best friend and extremely rich now married playboy has is an engineer to boot. Duquesne is another cutthroat scientist who finds out about material X will will do anything to get it. He will also steal and kill anything that gets in his way.

The Skylark of Valeron is the third ship to be created by Seaton.   Yes in every book the ship gets bigger and badder.  The aliens change and humanity is once again upheld by the ideals of campy space opera battles. 

In both series, Smith tries to top his previous book with even greater heroics (last time we blew up a planet, so this time we'll blow up a star and next time a galaxy!) This can lead to problems in the later volumes as he runs out of superlatives ... but have no fear! In "Valeron" Smith tries adding the FOURTH dimension to play in (which makes his one-dimension characters two-dimensional, almost.) It ends up being a lot of fun.

The characters are fun and a little stiff but held up by the pacing and action.  This is where Dusquesne makes his attempt at taking over the world.  Does he make it?  Find out!

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