ROLAND STARR

OPERATION OMINA

Lenox Hill Press

data from ISFDB which fits this copy:

◦ No edition, printing, printing date, or printing number line in book. 

◦ ©Copyright 1970 by Roland Starr.

◦ '7' on the copyright page is the month.

CONDITION:  GOOD; some light stains on cover, old price mark on flyleaf, no jacket.  However, the cover appears to have been put on backwards and upside down (!!!!!)

"You can’t tell because you’re still under its influence, but the rest of us, the mutineers, have our complete powers of reasoning again, and we know the commander is telling the truth. If you break the mutiny, you sentence us all to death." 

Max Vonner, captain of the starship Orion, has been flying through space for the last two years toward the planet Omina. 

He and the rest of the crew get regular runs through a machine meant to prevent space-sickness that the crew jokingly calls the “brainwasher.” Little do they know how right they are. 

The doctor comes to Vonner near the end of their trip and reports that the machine may be malfunctioning and she can’t predict how the crew will react. 

This is the first of four “Omina” books.

Commentaries on line:

This feels like a really old Science fiction novel probably because it was first published in the 1970's.   It is a short story and is still worth a read.

{Comment from me:  I’d call it a short novel, or Novelette, not a short story.}

I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It kept my interest throughout I can recommend it to space and sci-fi readers with no problem.

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