Review: Good story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2013
This was a good overall story.  Like many others I noticed some technical and tactical issues with the book.  One thing that drove me crazy and hasn't really been mentioned is the fact that their mass driver weapon shouldn't really have a max range.  A solid object shot through space at a high speed doesn't simple vanish once it reaches a certain point.  Now accuracy in relation to increasing range would be a huge factor of using such a weapon.  I'm not sure if laser based weapons would be effected by range or not.  I know in most other scifi, lasers have a max range but I'm not totally sure if that is correct.  Anyway, I was nearly ready to scream during the battle scenes.  I mean their target was larger but it was stationary and had its side facing them so its broadside missiles could be fired at them.  They could of fired at any range and hit the larger ship before they had a chance to notice the incoming fire and evade.  There were some other tactical issues I noticed like the fact that their ship had a protective screen and yet when they start getting hit with railgun fire, they just take the hits until they are forced to drop the screen and take damage to the ship itself.  That kind of drove me crazy too.  I mean really ... all they had to was evade from the track of the incoming fire once it started to hit their screen.  As long as they were able to evade fast enough, there is no reason for the screen to fail unless a missile were to hit them.