SOURCE: A review of Fireship, in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. XCIX, No. 10, October, 1979, pp. 165-66.

In the following excerpt, Lewis favorably reviews Fireship, describing it as a story of "love and loyalty and integrity and courage. "

Here are two novellas: Fireship [and] Mother and Child. . . The cover blurbs say that these are short novels, but I say they're novellas. The first, which appeared here (December 1978), and from which the book takes its title is a competent adventure story. The protagonist, whom we do not meet until late in the story, has by his existence called into being an antagonist. This antagonist would normally be considered the hero. He is a human/computer symbiosis, not a cyborg. The computer personality is more appealing than the human in most aspects. The "hero" gets involved in interplanetary intrigue, fights assorted villians, wins in the end, and gets to bed...