The Pacifists by Kevin CarlinMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Kevin Carlin’s humorous and very fast moving sci-fi novel is pretty impressive as a first book. It includes quite a range of different characters and the author is adept at conveying each of their very different personalities, even the various aliens. The plot involved saving the galaxy of course, but a group of fighter astro-pilots with a peaceful mis-fit, Monk, amongst them look like having a serious problem. When he fakes his own death and teams up with Freeda, an ace from the enemy the story really starts to develop. They eventually join up with another group, including Monk’s brothers, and form the group from which the book gets its title. To achieve their aim of ending the war they need to utilise a range of fascinating technology, the ideas of which I found both amusing and curious in their originality. Carlin is to be commended for that, particularly in my case as I was starting to find the endless descriptions of the space ‘dog-fights’ just a bit too tedious and boring; ‘Star Wars’ here we come again. Much of the futuristic ‘science’ was a little too far-fetched for me without sufficient explanation, but it is fiction after all! It was an enjoyable read for fans of comical space opera.
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