Review: Empire in decline
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2012
I enjoy the whole 'declining empire' motif in science fiction, and this by William Zellman is an excellent example of the genre. As the blurb says "a disgraced captain in the Empire Fleet, is sent to recover an Empire Battle Cruiser". Now if you had an empire expanding and developing new technology, finding a centuries old battleship would not make for any great yarn, but since it has abilities no longer readily available then it is a technology prize. The stories of the characters involved in finding and using it makes good reading.