Content:
Captain Eric Weston was formerly the Third World War squadron commander at the Archangels. That was the most technically advanced and most elite fighter squadron whole of the West, as it once again against the Eastern bloc (and partly Asia) went. Cutting-edge technology, atmosphere battle etc., but it is on Terra also known as the good old Earth. The war is now over and Weston is chosen to command the Odyssey. She is the first ship, which is faster than light. They should leave on its maiden flight, the solar system behind him, try out and discover what lies behind the Sol technology and the effects of interstellar travel.
So far so good. Not good, however, is that it captures after the first jump, a SOS, which must pursue and must discover a war and a huge threat to humanity.
Criticism (with inaccuracies due to general, the best possible spoiler avoidance):
- Sure, the story is really nothing new. However, one must be already wondering what this genre (science fiction - Aliens Spaceships - - war) is to discover something new if you please. In the humanities, there are at university a saying that there used to innovations and dug them again and again, turned around, be reassembled and illuminated by this light. I'm no longer in the name, but we called anyway with the verb dig (possibly also bone came before). Let us therefore as a bone, which will give us the building blocks of Military Science Fiction repeatedly excavated and reassembled. Feintuch makes, Weber, Drake, Jon Williams, Campbell, as well as the series like Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5. What would you please bring in this genre is new? If someone has a brilliant idea, he should please use itself as a book!
After this call, but now back to curries book. It commercializes just like any other just once well-known and well mixed it with their own ideas of the author.
- The storyline itself is stringent and the book has a self-contained story. You could then make good conscience an end to the series, without getting angry extreme as not quite so gentle reader. What bothered me were minor. But since I have been expecting too much. Consider holding eg that humanity (or the western part of it) breaks up at the stars the very first time. The crew thinks / acts but only conditionally thereafter when Currie times just think, to remember and reinzuschreiben it. He does not think like the imaginary people on his ship (even though I know that this is difficult). I'm missing the compassion. The wonder. It reads more as if the people do it almost every day.
In addition, the Odyssey, the Aliens verkloppt quite what made me pull some eyebrows. Realism is different. Since the newbies come therefore, mix in large concert (War of Major) for the first time with and cut right in. Hmm. From various accidents (about the SOS signal that comes just in time, as the Odyssey pure jumps), we do not talk times. Or the aliens use once quite a superweapon, which is no longer used in the final battle for some reason. Especially the last one has me personally but very disturbed.
- The characters are a bit flat, and the author does not have with them. Typical Genre disease.
Not to mention that I think a former fighter pilots already per se for little qualified, suddenly to command a ship (are now once Navybelange), Weston can do almost anything. He is a man with little blemish. Also why I said at the beginning, the novel sometimes seems like a debut.
In addition, on the ship a lot of anonymous Ensigns and lieutenants (young Navy), the Department will only still together (many individual specialists, potential problems with the act as a team are indicated and then stay at one of) and a lieutenant from the bridge is on once ensign and two pages later again Lieutenant. Since I have but trimmed, because that was one obvious fault of the author, which is symptomatic of planning and is dealing with the protagonists for me.
Furthermore, can hardly die Currie characters. Although I find nice (I am attached to the hero, when I read a book), but in a war that can not be easy. We are now not even the Eierlaufen on a child's birthday!
- The Odyssey is compared to a sailing ship and which acts in the book at that point ridiculous. As Currie could be further from the Age of Sail (model in the genre - see Weber, fine cloth, etc.) to dissociate.
Using the technique I was clear. Have not always understood everything minutely, but I read about something like that also like because it does not interest me. After all, the author exaggerates it not so.
Conclusion:
Now that I have left so few feathers on the book, I should point out that I have given 4 stars and the thing confront benevolent. Despite the weaknesses of enumeration. Reason: It has entertained me very well. An afternoon and evening. At a time. The story is creative, for all its similarities to other series and works. The main square of the Terrans in the universe appears (if you take the ship and leaves everything aside) correspond to be reasonably credible and the aliens, encounters the Westons crew, only half of the Military scifi cliché. One would have a reader Hide total merely that it is the first-ever trip to the Odyssey. Then the reading is better. There is an unresolved narrative that Currie is probably not unintentionally "omitted". I want to know what is going on with the perjury in coming. The work of that author, I will therefore continue to pursue.
