Quantum Pirate & The 7 Rules of Life

"e;A steeping in noir and crime story fiction colors most of Cover's major sf writing, and in both The Quantum Pirate and The 7 Rules of Life, the most delightful characters are the most ruthless.… Here, we find chaos struggling to assert itself. It's as if a small, cunning animal—like a fox, say—has gotten lost in a vast ground-meat factory, and is trying to get at the enticing ground meat withou...