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| | Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds: (Alacrity FitzHugh and Hobart Floyt, No 1) |  | Author: Brian Daley
Publisher: Del Rey
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1070205
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0345314875
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345314871
ASIN: 0345314875
Publication Date: April 12, 1985
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 One of my favorite books. August 17, 2007
This is one of my favorite books. It has a style all its own. It is just a whole lot of fun.
Fabulous! Brian Daley was the best.... April 11, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've read almost all Brian Daley books (yeah, he's my fav author), and these come very close to my favorite (although I'm more of a fantasy fan than a sci fi fan; long live Coramonde!). While there have been a zillion alien invasion stories, this is a story about a man who lives on Earth in a post-alien invasion society where the aliens lost, but managed to totally decimate Earth: all major cities are gone, most major landmarks are gone, almost everything that we would remember is absolutely gone...Earth has fallen back on itself, wallowing in their past glory, with a xenophobic, communist/socialist government that, and it is the birthplace of outer space people that are no longer quite "human," (like Alacrity) who brave anti-alien sentiments to make a pilgrimage back to their homeworld. In the case of Alacrity, who came to look at what's left of Earth's natural beauty, he gets framed for a murder of an Earther so he can escort Hobart Floyt, Earth functionary third class, on a mission to a distant planet to accept an inheritance from a recently deceased ruler of a 12(?) planet empire. Along the way, they survive several assassination attempts, many close calls, and a reporter who uses what she learns from talks with Alacrity and Hobart to write several books about fictional adventures that they are supposed to have, that Hobart would call "penny dreadfuls" (including "Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh in the Castle of the Death Addicts," "Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh Versus the Brain Eaters of the Galactic Rim," and "Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh Challenge the Amazon Slave Women of the Supernova"). Sound theories and speculations about the future that is interesting to think about (especially how popular Monopoly still is! Many breakabouts carry around personal tokens to use, and there's a big entry fee that goes into the jackpot for the winner). Top-notch materiel!
True grasp of cultural density, must read for travellers January 6, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Brian Daley was a Vietnam Veteran who lived in New York City, his experience with diverse cultures, densely packed shows through in his work. If you have ambitions to be a world traveller, reading Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds will help you overcome the initial terror of the absolutely strange. This is a great first book in a great series. It is an absolute tragedy that he will never write a fourth novel for this series, but each novel of the series is complete on its own. You just want more!
 Entertaining Space Opera August 1, 2000
This is an enjoyable and solid space opera distinguished by gentle humor and some on target satire. Good trip reading. Well worth a few dollars in a used bookstore.
Amazed at how good it remains after 15 years! July 7, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I first read this book when it appeared in paperback in 1985 or so. On a recenct visit to my parents home, I found it on a shelf while poking around on a lazy afternoon and started reading...I was delighted to find it was as good as I remembered, the characters are vivid, likeable and engaging and the story is epic and interesting. I have never read too much of this genre, so I'm not as picky as some others who have reviewed this title, I suppose, but I find the above qualities refreshing in a genre that seems to have been left to the "experts", a situation that always ends up dull. My biggest piece of advice would be to buy all three books at once, if possible, free up a weekend and go for a great ride. Even at 33 I felt-as I did at 17-a sense of personal loss when the last page of the last book ended, like friends had moved away.
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