If you read Cradle, this should all feel very familiar to you. There's also the ship's AI "spirit", who exaggerates her capabilities a lot and also has a minor psychotic streak to her personality. His allies are a man who acts naive in a very funny way and who's much more powerful than he seems, and a woman who's all business, with only combat on her mind, and who's on a mission to fight the same kind of entity the protagonist is fighting against. He also has a difficult relationship with his father. The Captain is basically that, with an addition of a handful of slightly-more-realized characters: we have the protagonist who, after seeing his future in multiple timelines, leaves his family with no explanation and goes to prevent a dangerous entity from destroying everything.
THA CAPTIN FULL
The unending magical technobabble, the lack of any established rules for what can and cannot happen, and a magical war on a massive scale, full of godlike beings doing all sorts of godlike acts. When it comes to Cradle, the Abidan sections were the parts I liked the least. To top it all off, much of the story is copy-pasted from either Cradle or Mass Effect 2. I can't help but feel that Will Wight simply wrote whatever he felt like as it came to him, putting very little effort into any and all aspects of this book.
It's worse than any Cradle book, for one. Tl dr: The story, as almost everything about this book, is quite bad. The book is funny at times, and each character is unique and well-characterized (though significantly lacking in depth). Will Wight's fast-paced plotting makes for constant entertainment without a moment to rest or get bored.
If you liked the Abidan sections from Cradle you might like this one too. If you’re in a reading slump or just in a bad place mentally, count on “The Captain,” to help you rediscover fun and forget your troubles…with the power of FRIENDSHIP! Will is very gifted with a wonderful, genius-level imagination and he uses it to tell plot driven stories with characters that only get time to grow on you over the course of hundreds of pages. Sometimes, the feeling exists that life has enough suffering and things to be serious about and people deserve to enjoy themselves and have some fun every once in a while. Will Wight writes like his sphincter is on fire. This book was great! Don’t go into it asking for amazing prose, synapse-expanding philosophy, or intricate use of literary device. If none of that grabbed your attention I guess I’ll get serious for a paragraph or two. In this book there are talking ships, solar dragons that hatch from stars, a power ranger, a spoiled rich kid abusing the success and status of his corporate superstar daddy, the literal Pokemon: Ditto, and a rap battle for the ages. “The Captain” is the most fun you’ll have since the first time you masturbated. Will Wight’s “The Captain” is a work of tense but seriously lighthearted creative genius which I can only describe as ‘One Piece in space-but the ship is a yandere!’ It was purely aesthetic, with no point other than to look impressive. “While the whole ship was an ostentatious display of wealth, this was the kind of magic I appreciated. Until he hears rumors of a mythical starship, an invincible vessel of heroes made to do battle against galactic threats. Hopeless, Varic finds himself trying to preserve what little he can from the coming doom. Sun-eating extra-dimensional insects, shadowy secret organizations, genetically enhanced alien super-soldiers, ruthless megacorporations, and hordes of cyborg undead all lurk in the darkest corners of the galaxy, and Varic knows that any of them can become a world-ending threat at any moment.Īll these are beyond any wizard, no matter how many spells he’s mastered or how many interstellar warships he’s rallied to his cause. The enemies he faced in those alternate lives were apocalyptic in scale.
Now, Varic has power greater than any wizard in galactic history, but he knows that won’t be enough. The ritual works too well, granting Varic not only the magic but also the memories from six lives. On a little-known planet, Archmage Varic Vallenar casts a grand spell to empower himself with the magical abilities of his alternate selves. "To survive in this galaxy, you need a wand in one hand and a gun in the other.”
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