Jack Williamson has added one more to his "Legion of Space" trilogy: The Queen of the Legion. He needn't have bothered. His effort is trite and superficial. It satisfies no sense of wonder, suspends no disbelief. His characters seem little better than puppets on a stage. He has done much better.

What's the problem?…

The story begins with a child, Jill Gyrel, who wants to join the Legion when she grows up. But the Legion is in trouble. The folks back home don't believe the Legion ever really saved the universe. They're cutting funds, drying up support, egged on by pacifists.

Jill's daddy disappears on a mission into the mysterious Nebula. His partner eventually returns, strangely changed, to marry her mother. Both join the peaceniks and embezzle Jill's inheritance. Jill flees home, then heads for space to join the Legion. But the Legion is accepting no recruits, and...