Well, I'm slacking in noting what I'm reading here. Let's see, first and foremost I have finished the the six book Scattered Stars Series by Glynn Stewart. As I noted in the October thread:
This series is set in the distant future. Humanity has spread to multitudes of stars in the galaxy. Although the Speed of light is not the ultimate barrier it is not traversed by so much so as to make distance a non-factor. I would say it roughly compares to a Clipper ship sailing the Pacific. Information spreads and people spread but the longer a place is settled the more advanced they are. The core worlds are the most advanced. Kira Demirci, the main character, has been a star fighter pilot in the middle ring of human advance, but she and her squad have been sold out. She escapes to a fringe world with a considerable inheritance of money and some advanced (for the fringe) fighters. She sets up a mercenary group and the story runs from there as the mysteries begin to unwind.
There are some Easter Eggs that make me smile. One of the propulsion units are Harringtons. A fighter type is a Manticore. The villains are using Seldonan (Harry Seldon's) mathematics to shape the kind of universe they want. etc. Some might find this book to be interesting because the characters come in all kinds of gender and sexual preferences without it being any kind of big deal at all.
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The books are Conviction, Deception, Equilibrium, Fortitude, Huntress, and Prodigal. These are all named for a new ship she adds to her fleet. And I should add to the above that battle scenes are well thought out and adhere to the boundaries that he sets for them with some not unusual "handwaven." Maybe the strongest thing I can say is that book six was just as well written as book one.
For the series: Avoid --- Not Recommended --- Flawed --- Okay --- Good --- Recommended --- Shouldn’t be Missed
**If anyone reads this series I'd be very interested in what you thought of the overall ending of it.
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And then I am presently reading Femmes Fae-Tales as written about several of our members. This is a book of short fantasy stories. So far the one that I like the best is written E. J. Tett (our own @Mouse). The Frog Prince, I think it will stay with me for a long time.
This series is set in the distant future. Humanity has spread to multitudes of stars in the galaxy. Although the Speed of light is not the ultimate barrier it is not traversed by so much so as to make distance a non-factor. I would say it roughly compares to a Clipper ship sailing the Pacific. Information spreads and people spread but the longer a place is settled the more advanced they are. The core worlds are the most advanced. Kira Demirci, the main character, has been a star fighter pilot in the middle ring of human advance, but she and her squad have been sold out. She escapes to a fringe world with a considerable inheritance of money and some advanced (for the fringe) fighters. She sets up a mercenary group and the story runs from there as the mysteries begin to unwind.
There are some Easter Eggs that make me smile. One of the propulsion units are Harringtons. A fighter type is a Manticore. The villains are using Seldonan (Harry Seldon's) mathematics to shape the kind of universe they want. etc. Some might find this book to be interesting because the characters come in all kinds of gender and sexual preferences without it being any kind of big deal at all.
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The books are Conviction, Deception, Equilibrium, Fortitude, Huntress, and Prodigal. These are all named for a new ship she adds to her fleet. And I should add to the above that battle scenes are well thought out and adhere to the boundaries that he sets for them with some not unusual "handwaven." Maybe the strongest thing I can say is that book six was just as well written as book one.
For the series: Avoid --- Not Recommended --- Flawed --- Okay --- Good --- Recommended --- Shouldn’t be Missed
**If anyone reads this series I'd be very interested in what you thought of the overall ending of it.
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And then I am presently reading Femmes Fae-Tales as written about several of our members. This is a book of short fantasy stories. So far the one that I like the best is written E. J. Tett (our own @Mouse). The Frog Prince, I think it will stay with me for a long time.
