So I think, like you, that it prolly survived at least semi-intact.

On first reading, it seems like he's just rammed a fist into some vital drive component which probably made the whole thing go 'Boom', but this seems less and less likely when as is mentioned in the book the ship was never recovered, and presumably that means wreckage as well. Lately, when I considered the novel again, I hoped some ship from Golden met the Coyote and him alive (he should have no big troubles to survive in his suit, given some kind of Can to recharge batteries), allowing him to return his planet and.who knows.īut the ending is open to whatever sequel one plans, there are many open plots (Eyes, for example) and many stories which could offer a good starting point for a whole new novel (war on Banshee, what's behind Ants and their technology, destiny of all the people Felix met.)ītw, have you noticed that it's better not to meet Felix on the battlefield? All who did died.Ĭlick to expand.The passage in the book is quite ambiguous. But, after having done this, the ship was so much damaged it wasn't possible to drive it anymore, and so he just floated adrift in the worst of my theories, the ship blew up during shooting, but I soon aborted this thought (bad doom for such an indomitable and brave warrior). Does anyone want to offer their own theory on what happened to Felix?Ĭlick to expand.On the wings of enthusiasm, I thought he managed to enter the spaceship (which is almost clear with the last scene taken from the camera) and swept away the pirates' crew and the boss. Any of you people heard anything about the sequel lately? The point of this thread it to mention that he has also mentioned that at some point a sequel is on the way, and that the fate of the main protagonist, Felix, can be extrapolated from the plot if you look closely enough. This makes him unreadable for some people, but his action scenes kind of look like disjointed poetry once you get your head around them.

As in Vampire$, Steakley manages this by breaking many rules of 'good' writing, using a lot of run on sentences, fragments and generally pissing all over the conventions. Steakley wrote in an interview that he wanted to pay tribute to Heinlein's Starship Troopers by doing something he felt Heinlein could not : write really fluid action scenes. It's a splatterpunk sci-fi tale of armoured suits, survival instincts, and millions of murderous aliens on a dustball called 'Banshee'. For those of you not familliar with it, this is a real goodie.

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