Play Book Tag discussion

NB - not in the review--the survival of humans is at stake with what is learned in this first book in a series.

This book was, for much of it, a lot of fun--interstellar politics, catastrophe forecast, humour, action, sex and some fun characters. The writing is solid, the characterization--well, it is space opera, so one takes some of the extremes with a tasty grain of salt, such as Kiva. There is no way to enjoy this unless you are willing to suspend your dis- or unbelief, but that is part and parcel for this genre.

One of the fun things about Scalzi is how matter-of-factly he had discarded the male dominated hierarchy--in his future power, corruption, greed, valour, integrity, brains or the lack thereof--all of it is well distributed. No aliens, no beaming, not centuries long lives and that is fine with me.



🐉May your reading be evergreen🐉

This sounds great. I have a Scalzi in my lineup that you recommended. Hopefully will get to it soon.

Theresa wrote: "This sounds great. I have a Scalzi in my lineup that you recommended. Hopefully will get to it soon."

He's quite good, but this is more brain candy (as one person in my scifi group called it) because it's space opera and not big on deep thinking ;).