Donna Harris's Ownd. Douglas Arthur Hill has 72 books on Goodreads with ratings. The Legionaries of Moros have been annihilated by an evil force known as the Deathwing.
The only survivor was Keill Randor, a young but highly skilled warrior, who embarks on a quest to find the unknown being who leads the Deathwing. Young Legionary Demon Stalkers 1. Prey 2. Torment 3. Vengeance Huntsman 1. Warlord's Revenge When John Riley's class is chosen to be inspected by the mysterious scholars of Kerallin, they take an amazing trip to the scholars' hidden planet! As if being quizzed by the scholars isn't stressful enough, We're students.
Socrat had stepped forward. Pan Books, , p. But Keill survived the radiation and—as the galaxy's last legionary—set out on a grim quest to find the Warlord and Skip to content. This will take your memory places It's really great and it reads extremely fast. Unfortunately, it is also out of print and extremely difficult to get hold of. You're going to have to trawl the second hand book stores.
View all 8 comments. Jul 23, Devin Simpson rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. This book changed me. I still remember the librarian stamping the card when i checked this book out of my grade school library. I was in 5th grade at the time with the attention span of a gnat, I mean Choose your own adventure books were a challenge for me to finish. We had library day once a week, as a class we all trooped to the library for a short presentation of any new books by the librarian and time to find books to check out and read.
Honestly i'd have rather been out at on the playground, This book changed me. Honestly i'd have rather been out at on the playground, but on this day just weeks before school was out i slid this book off the shelf to read the dust jacket. I had to checkout at least one book that usually sat at the bottom of my cubby for the week might as well be this one was likely my thought. Now, it only took minutes to grab that book i had at least 20 minutes left before heading back to the classroom, i went right for the reading fort playhouse thing and unknowingly truly opened a book for the first time.
I read this book not once but twice that week, the next week we had to return our books, I couldn't check out more because of summer but there were more! The librarian told me to go get a library card from the public library, ya ya not for the first time but this time i did. I read all 4 of this series that were out that summer and many more. Since I read every douglas hill book released over the years even when i was getting into high school and had to check the kids section for new ones at the public library May 28, Peter Tillman rated it did not like it Shelves: did-not-finish , science-fiction , not-for-me , lost-interest.
Lame YA retread of golden-age SF. Inexplicable good reviews here. I don't think I would have liked this as a kid, either.
Avoid, avoid. May 08, DiscoSpacePanther rated it really liked it Shelves: childrens , science-fiction , space-opera , young-adult. It is sometimes dangerous to go back to something that you had enjoyed as a child: the unexpected mystique that intrigued you or the particular first taste of a narrative flavour that you have since enjoyed later in many different dishes might be rendered everyday by age and experience. Thankfully, I can report that Douglas Hill's YA writing is as much fun now as it was back in the '80s when I read Day of the Starwind , the 3rd book in the Last Legionary quartet, from the school library.
I had alw It is sometimes dangerous to go back to something that you had enjoyed as a child: the unexpected mystique that intrigued you or the particular first taste of a narrative flavour that you have since enjoyed later in many different dishes might be rendered everyday by age and experience.
I had always wanted to go back and read the first two books in the series, but they weren't in stock at the library, and I didn't ever see them on bookshop shelves, so that I never got the chance to read them at the age-appropriate time. When I saw them later, I was an older teen and had moved on to longer and more complex fare. Still, I enjoy a good space opera, and Galactic Warlord , the first of the Last Legionary novels, is unpretentiously just that.
Despite being published the same year , Galactic Warlord is orders of magnitude superior to The Space Pirates. Where the Eklund book expressly treats women as bland nothings, Hill introduces a communal martial culture that favours neither men nor women, and has a female warrior play a pivotal, self-sacrificial and honourable role in saving the life of one of her comrades - the titular Last Legionary.
It feels like a small thing, but the writing of the two books come from different ages. On its own, this novelette at barely pages it is a very quick read! It starts off at a good pace, and has a great action packed climax.
Nevertheless, it knows when to spend its time in a more reflective mode, so that the action sequences come with more power than if the narrative had just been relentless BIFF! This book feels like a really good set up for the sequels, and I am looking forward to checking out Deathwing Over Veynaa next.
I have a feeling that these four kids books together will make a pretty solid page YA SF novel. Jan 25, Alexander Draganov rated it really liked it. A thrilling beginning to a YA scifi series. It has everything a scifi fan needs - cool main character, member of an elite warrior group, big scale planetary action and an extremely evil villains. View 2 comments.
Apr 09, T. Bakutis rated it it was amazing. Galactic Warlord is the first in a series of short sci-fi novels I remember absolutely loving as a young boy, some of the first books that inspired me to write. Even reading it as an adult, the book has aged very well. The writing is tight, clear, and easy to follow, and does a great job of immediately making you root for its central character, veteran soldier Keill Randor.
The way Keill is introduced and the plight he faces are an instant hook, and the start of this book ranks among one my favo Galactic Warlord is the first in a series of short sci-fi novels I remember absolutely loving as a young boy, some of the first books that inspired me to write.
The way Keill is introduced and the plight he faces are an instant hook, and the start of this book ranks among one my favorite introductions to a character. Despite its short length, Mr. Hill managed to tell a great deal of story in a surprisingly short time. He wisely keeps the character roster light and uncluttered, focusing on Keill and his new "partner" instead of complicating the story with extraneous or underdeveloped characters.
If I were to voice any complaint, it would be that the tremendously solid hook is invalidated almost too quickly upon the arrival of the "Overseers" - but I can forgive that fault in a short YA novel, where the story must move ahead at a brisk pace. There's certainly enough story after that to keep my interest high, as the mystery introduced tangentially at the start comes to the fore. The action in the book is one of its greatest strengths. The scenes are detailed enough that you can visualize each strike, block, and kick, yet tight enough that they never overstay their welcome.
Keill is an incredible fighter not only because of his peak mental conditioning but also because of his intense calm and acute grasp of strategy. Every move Keill makes to fight what seems like overwhelming odds is plausible and easy to understand due to the way it is written, and the book's final confrontation is both nail-biting and memorable.
Unfortunately, the book seems out of print I'd had a hard time finding any copies that aren't unreasonably expensive but if you do come across it, you would do well to pick it up.
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