And that’s part of the fun of it, as conflict builds like a volcano about to blow. And with every passing page, they grow ever more distant, more ready to stab one another in the back to serve their own purposes and interests. The key characters all pretty much despise one another and form mini-factions, constantly scheming others’ downfalls and the attainment of their motives. Convention demands that narratives like these, which tend to be procedural, with a core serial purpose giving it spine, have the crew get closer, form bonds of sorts, as each adventure makes them more a tighter unit. He’s a man very much out for himself and thus his crew responds in kind, with venomous hatred and bile. But other people’s perceptions aside, he’s a selfish prick and a man that can be quite callous and cold, concerning himself with only his motives above all things. Captain Briggs is no Captain Kirk or Captain Picard, who the crew cares for, admires, is inspired by and would lay down their lives for. With a healthy mix of Star Trek, Alien and even a tinge of manga (courtesy of Chan’s artwork), the book is set for fun paths - it’s a solid mix of ingredients to mix together for something unexpected.
So what happens when you take these two extremities, cosmic wonder and its opposite, cosmic horror and mash them together? Why you get this book, of course. It’s a place of the unknown and fear comes easy to us when it concerns the unknown. You enter space and you mess up? You not only burn up, but also freeze, boil and suffocate all at once.
But then there’s the other truth of space: it’s scary. That we could do this, travel the universe or even beyond it, accomplish and confront any problem it may throw at us and keep on trekking. There’s a wonder at the heart of all this, a sort of fundamental optimism about it all. The crew of heroes travel the cosmos, encountering various worlds, vastly different life forms, confront curious and challenging philosophies and even get into some thrilling space battles amongst all of that. There’s something truly appealing about science fiction set on an exploratory vessel in space. Its continuing mission: To rescue those beyond the reaches of ordinary space, to go where most men would not dare: into the Outer Darkness. These are the voyages of Starship Charon.
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