Review: An attempt at an E.E. "Doc" Smith type Space Opera that just didn't work.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
More like a 2.75.**SPOILER ALERT**The first part of volume one of this "Lunar Discovery" trilogy introduced a pretty standard assortment of characters--among them a rather rigid military officer type and a few more laid back enlisted men, a (mad) hard scientist who would try to become a dictator, the hero, a much more level-headed linguist, and the female biologist who would become his mate--all working through a somewhat interesting plot, but by the end of this volume the story--about humans marooned on a gigantic alien ship with aliens they had to find common ground with and with control mechanisms they had to figure out--had become reminiscent of far too many other similar stories and was just not that interesting, and I was starting to lose interest.The second volume continued the downward spiral, as it devolved into what was mainly a series of endless, pretty similar attacks by the protagonists and their alien and eventually AI allies against the AI collective called Unity, that had raided the Earth's Moon for minerals and had ambitions to control the Galaxy; this interspersed with continual improvements in the power, capability, armaments, and the shielding of these protagonist's spaceships.The third volume was mostly more of the same, with the humans rather implausibly able to sow dissension among the AIs composing the Unity by introducing the idea of humanoid bodies and sex.  The return of the few surviving humans to a very changed Earth at the end of volume three was pretty much anti-climactic.