Orbital Book 5: Justice

Orbital Book 5: Justice, by Sylvain Runberg & Serge Pelle, Cinebook

PREVIOUSLY THE Orbital series of books could be said to skirt around a science fiction scenario wherein a Babylon 5 political situation attempts to pass judgement within a Farscape adventure landscape. Whereas with this latest instalment we’re edging into the original Star Trek movie franchise as our heroes defy the status quo, with a big dollop of The Fifth Element dripping into the storyline besides.

Oribital is back, with a cold-hearted vengeance, as interplanetary skulduggery rears its hydra like head, intent on making Mezoke a scapegoat for the failed Human-Sandjarr reconciliation ceremony featured in the previous two-part book story.

As witness they want to bring in her police keeping partner, the human known as Caleb, only he’s unconscious and on the critical list. Not a problem the authorities declare, they can pump him full of steroids, make him feel good in no time and surely testifying before them will be in the best interests of all life-forms.

More likely that jolting him back to consciousness so soon will fry his brain cells, render him dead and unable to tell the kind of truth that said authorities don’t want revealing more like.

And so this mess unfolds, developing on events seen in Books 3 and 4 as characters brought into play there now take their own stories forward. Even as Mezoke makes good an escape, intent on rescuing Caleb: there’s audacious action amidst eerie alien space stations and a distant land as villains begin to show their faces, but, so too, do old allies, and all anyone can do is hope it’s not too late

56 full colour pages of intrigue and high-adventure with an off-world flavour all its own.

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