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Original Title:	Power Play (Petaybee, #3)
ISBN:	0517193655 (ISBN13: 9780517193655)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Petaybee #3

Power Play (Petaybee #3)

Anne McCaffrey

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 292 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 4235 Users | 48 Reviews

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Title	:	Power Play (Petaybee #3)
Author	:	Anne McCaffrey
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 292 pages
Published	:	August 26th 1997 by Random House Value Publishing (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy

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I'm guessing this is where McCaffrey checked out of this series. The tone changes entirely - it's a marked difference, and not a good one. Suddenly there's a lot of "she caught her own unspoken pun and chuckled", and you read back thinking "what pun? Oh, that - why are we noting that?" There are a lot more jokey slang phrases as well, which were out of date when the book was published and so now just sound totally bizarre; I don't really believe that that lingo is still alive on a deep-space station. And the political maneuvering from the first two books has moved from bureaucratic in nature to some sort of high-society chess game. Ugh.

There's this awkward attempt at comedy going through the entire book, and it's bizarre. For instance: there are pirates, who are dressed in some sort of frankensteined space pirate gear - literally a cutoff spacesuit with bandanas and striped shirts. One of them lurches around saying stuff like "make them walk the plank". It's community theatre in space, and even the characters note how anachronistic the behaviour is, suggesting the pirates have been watching old movies. Which I find incredibly realistic, given how much of my leisure time I spend cranking up the old Gramophone and enjoying some late 19th century tunes. It would be like soldiers suddenly putting on Crusades-era chainmail, or me running around dressed up like Mata Hari when I feel like doing a spot of espionage. And then there's the fact that multiple people from different planets and backgrounds seem to know of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas, down to singing "Model Major General". Most people on Earth today cannot quote or identify Shakespeare's work, so again, this is some random authorial whim that is completely illogical. These are ridiculous, contrived scenes, and they derail the whole plot - not to mention they are painfully unfunny.

At the heart of it, the characters just change too much. Part of it is that the new style of writing (Scarsborough, I assume) creates much more distance and feels superficial. But a lot of it is also wholesale character alterations. I liked Yana, so to see this scarred military veteran suddenly turn into someone who stands at a space station window, thinking of the "man of her heart" (the hell?!) and nibbling on the edge of a memo is horrifying. Uh, no. No. She's 40-50 years old, if I'm getting the "too old to have kids" miracle right, and she's a war veteran, and there is no way in hell she would be handed a printout and proceed to fatuously eat it. Come ON. It makes Yana sound incredibly dumb - and that's not even getting into her sudden tingly experiences whenever she touches an aristocrat who's wearing what sounds like Spanx for Men. Because that's sexy.

Back on Peytabee things are not as bad, but overall it's not the same voice writing. And there's no subtlety to it at all, so it doesn't feel like a natural continuation. Luckily, this is not a very good series in the first place, so it doesn't hurt as much as I imagine the handover of Pern has for people reading Todd McCaffrey's books.

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I've read this a couple of times now, and I don't have any idea how many lol It was one of my favorite books as a teenager, but it was at least a decade between this read and the last one.

Power Play by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is the third book in the Petaybee series. The story fallows the events which occurred in Power Lines as the defeated enemies of Petaybee are not through with their scheming. The two main antagonists are once again Torkel Fisk and Mathew Luzon but they both deal with intermediaries rather than coming near the planet themselves. Torkel goes the more direct route by hiring the pirate Onidi Louchard to kidnap Yanaba Maddock and Marmion de

Good read. Creative writing. Nice twist on the ending.

The senitent planet Petaybee tolerates only a few people and has driven off the large corporations intending to strip her resources. But now the companies start trying to overload the planet through guerrilla action and the hiring of pirates.

I very much love this series... This is 3rd in the trilogy... The ending is great and yet there are options for a 4th book in my opinion.. Good reading from this author as always.

ugh the kidnapping plot.but still there is a lot happening in these books that is relevant to today re: resource management and extracting wealth from any system being an opportunity that should be unrestricted and how messed up that is. All in all the whole trilogy felt like a very timely reread.

The last book in a good scifi series.