Review: Super sci-fi action
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2012
As someone who has read literally thousands of sci-fi titles over the past half century, I have to say that Mr. Currie is rapidly moving up my list of favorites.  He has not yet tackled "big" themes (though there are promising hints in the last book of his Odyssey series), and character development and proofreading are still works in progress.  There is some repetition better editing would have eliminated.  But boy, oh boy!  His descriptions of battles on land and in space are about as good as it gets.  There are a couple of especially vivid action sequences that absolutely stand out in their uniqueness, in "Valkyrie Burning", in which Sorilla returns to Hayden and Mr. Currie finally brings some elements of the alien Alliance into the picture.  Frankly, the aliens (apart from the Ros El, who are not involved this time) aren't so different from the humans and I think Mr. Currie is making a point here.  Ship handlers admire the tactics of their opposite numbers, and the special forces operators like Sorilla are much alike.Each book of the two series (Valkyrie and Odyssey) has been better than the last, and I can say without hesitation that "Valkyrie Burning" is a real pleasure to read if you like military action sci-fi.  Assuming he eventually broadens his sights beyond the military sub-genre, there is not a doubt in my mind that Mr. Currie will eventually take a place among the "immortals" of sci-fi.  If you aren't reading him now, at these prices, you'll probably regret it in a few years.