I liked - not loved - the Venus cycle of four (actually five) books. "Writing (.) cannot save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all." Mutants we meet a certain Julian Tifflor, I believe. What makes PR special (for me) is that everything, even if by itself unremarkable, can suddenly turn out to be an important piece in a truly epic puzzle. Then again, after Perry's so far impressive record (to-do list: fly to the Moon - done make first contact with intelligent aliens - done steal their technology - done prevent World War III - done unite mankind - done fend off alien invasion - done build spaceship that can travel faster than light - done make first interstellar journey - done become immortal - done) it makes sense that not everything is going so smoothly and that the conquest of space is being delayed by problems on earth. Since they had to bring out a new issue every week, they came up with all those adventures on Venus, conspiracies etc, until they found a new big theme in the confrontation with Arkon. It seems to me that after Perry got his immortality, the authors needed quite a while to figure out where to take the story next.
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