Blackcollar

Anachronisms aside, this was more fun than I thought it would be. Essentially a story with futuristic ninjas battling loyalty conditioned alien collaborators in order to obtain a stash of game changing space ships. Yep, it's like that. Zahn is probably more famous as a Star Wars writer these days, bu......more

This was Zahn's first novel, and oh boy it shows. First, the good: the plot moved at a nice clip, and there were a number of Zahn's requisite twists right up until the end. But the meh: --The POVs jump not very smoothly from Allen Caine (the young Earth operative) to Lathe the head Blackcollar to othe......more

Meh. This was written in the early 1980s and it shows. I enjoyed Zahn's Star Wars books, which is probably why I put this series on my TBR, but I won't be continuing with it. The Blackcollar reads like a classic kung-fu movie, rather than a novel. Characters aren't developed at all, and a bunch of th......more

For some reason, I got it in my head that I wanted to track down a book I'd had when I was a kid. But all I remembered was the cover image - couldn't remember the author, title, character names, nothing. So I went to the Reddit forum What's That Book?, and wrote this: Hey there, Gang. I'm trying to......more

If you are a Star Wars fan (book type), you probably know Timothy Zahn quite well. I first read him when he wrote the Thrawn Trilogy. I still hope Disney decides to make those into movies. I recently ran across The Blackcollar by Mr Zahn. There is a whole series of related books that he wrote that ar......more