Review: Halstead strikes again
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2013
Jason Halstead is prolific, and as usual he serves up a fun, exotic and stirring tale.Vitalis has claimed many victims. Not only are its flora and fauna weird and vicious, but it is inhabited by a hostile, superintelligent spirit. It's no place for old men, or innocents. However, its terrors are usually confined to the planetary surface. Not this time; the crew of Independence, a transport ship carrying samples from Vitalis, discovers that the samples contain live aliens. These are not friendly aliens. Worse, the entire crew has been infected by invisible Vitalian bacteria, which threaten to transform them into mutants.Can Kira and the embattled heroes of Vitalis help--will Earth, too, be dragged into this nightmare? Guess you'll have to pick up the book.