"Hardworking but predictable, with interchangeable characters and an old-hat space menace set against an unsurprising backdrop."
Starship Glory's third planetfall (Glory, 1993, etc.) is Yamato, a world settled by Japanese, where a medieval social structure is overlaid with modern technology.
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A Nazi dagger in the mail lures a middle-aged Californian back to Germany, where he was adopted and where his recurring nightmares seem to be set—in a chilly post-reunion thriller by the author of A Land of Mirrors (1988), etc. The dagger in question, a particularly rare bit of SS regalia, has been seen before.
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Thriller-writer Coppel's only previous sf appearance was Dark December (1960); this one kicks off a far-future story-cycle about ancient, starships that, impelled to relativistic velocities by faster-than-light tachyon particles striking their solar sails, spend hundreds of years wafting cargo between far-flung colonies.
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