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Title: The Last Deathship Off Antares by William J. Watkins ISBN: 0-445-20464-8 Publisher: Warner Books (Mm) Pub. Date: 01 December, 1988 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $3.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating book with deep meaning
Comment: The story can be had from the other reviews, but the deeper piece of this book is the near "religion" created by Driscoll called the "Gradient". It's fascinating how he uses this to energize and recruit men to his cause away from despair and hopelessness. It's a metaphor for all life and spirituality, but without a heavy hand. The Gradient is like the Force in Star Wars, but more believable and accessible.

Rating: 5
Summary: Out of this world
Comment: Your typical sci-fi book-movie would have warriors killed or injured after pitched battles between two sides. but few have told of what happened to those captured. stuck for years in deathships cos the antlike aliens who caught them found it beneath their dignity to kill warriors who surrendered in battles, the humans have nothing to do but kill each other for food (ant gruel or cannibalism -- what a choice). how they survived and descriptions of the deathships off the antares platform are great. i like the way the 'anties' treat them to make sure they all die in the end but in a slow excruciating manner. How they escaped would make a good movie. star trek and star wars could learn a thing or two. how they try to defeat their enemies could result in sequels (anybody out there knows where i cd get other books by author?) I have read the book eight times in last few years (found it in second hand bookstore) for its clever prose. and of course the heart-stopping 'what will they do next?'. and oh yes, their leader driscoll is blind. END

Rating: 4
Summary: Small book packs a big punch
Comment: This was an excellent short read - one of those that stays with you as you ponder it for days afterward. Driscoll took all of these thousands of disheartened man-beasts and gave them something: hope. Too bad that this author's other works never caught on as well.