I started reading - yet again - Tuf Voyaging, a book by George RR Martin written in 1986. Science Fiction at its best, Haviland Tuf protagonizes this comic meditation about environmentalism and absolute power.
I read this short fictional stories novel when I was younger, exactly in the year it was published. It began a as a one shot story with A best for Norn and then it became a novel, with Martin writing more and more short stories in the same universe starring the same protagonist, following the same timeline.
"The novel concerns the (mis)adventures of Haviland Tuf, an exceptionally tall, bald, very pale, overweight, phlegmatic, vegetarian, cat-loving-but-otherwise solitary space trader. Tuf inadvertently becomes the master of the Ark, an ancient, 30-kilometre-long (19 mi) "seedship" - a very powerful warship with advanced ecological engineering capabilities - after a deal with several venal and cutthroat traders goes awry. Tuf travels the galaxy, offering his services to worlds with environmental problems, and sometimes imposing solutions of his own."
I will read this book over the next couple of weeks and I will be posting my chapter reviews. I hope you like them!