Edward W. Robertson. Outlaw. Amazon Digital, 2014. E-book.

Outlaw is an entertaining space opera. Jain arrives on an asteroid to conduct some kind of secret business, and she disappears.

Webber works on a pirate spaceship working out of a base near Uranus.

Webber and the crew under Capt. Gomes end up on a search with some others to find out what happened to Jain. It appears that there is a new game-changing travel technology that may have been generated by an alien race that had nearly destroyed earth completely in the past.

Outlaw is a lot of fun. There is a castle occupied by a group of hackers called the Lords of the Realm. Government? It is mostly anarchy except for some interplanetary corporations. The Uranus space station is not unlike America’s wild west.

Webber and the Lords each do their part to discover the truth about the alleged new technology. Are the aliens back? Are there human traitors willing to sell out the human race for this new breakthrough?

There are a couple of space battles that are positively cinematic. Yes, some elements are reminiscent of Star Wars, Ice Pirates, or Starship Troopers, but Robertson writes well and keeps our imaginations active.