Sidhe-Devil
(SF/Fantasy)
By Aaron
Allston
BAEN
Books
ISBN
#0671319930
Price
$6.99
500
Pages
Rating
5-Stars
In this second novel in the
Doc Sidhe (Sidhe is pronounced She) series, Harris and Gaby are in California
for their wedding. Afterwards, they run into a criminal gang from the Fair
world looking for Doc. Zeb Watson, Harris’ martial arts/kick boxing trainer is
his best man, and he get’s tangled up with the weird looking gangsters. Zeb
hears their story about the Fair world and doesn’t believe them, so they take
him with them when they go back. They need to make sure Doc is okay.
The Fair world is running
decades behind the Grim world in time, and this new plot seems to involve their
Nazi counterparts, the Reinis, trying to take over their European nations with
the white super race. There is also an Olympics type organization, and the
Reinis are trying to show the world that they are the best. Zeb is entered, and
he’s black, and plans on taking the gold if the white sun god doesn’t kill him
first.
This was another fast,
action-packed novel of an alternate world, with an alternate Doc Savage and
aides fighting evil around the world in the person of Doc Sidhe and his aides.
All the aides are present, and even a few gangsters help Doc and team out in
beating the white super race. The author was a popular SF writer, but sadly
died of a heart attack several years ago, so we won’t see any more stories in
this series. However, he proves in these Doc Savage pastiches that he could
have written more if he’s had time. The two published novels in the Doc Sidhe
series were lots of fun. Highly recommended.
Tom
Johnson
Author
of THREE GO BACK
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