Review: Seriously good sci-fi
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2013
Two hundred years ago an alien race made first contact. It didn't go particularly well. In response, the various nations on Earth united with a goal of mastering space travel, and hopefully ensuring humanity’s survival before the aliens returned to exterminate them. Orphaned at birth, Jack Peterson is now a cadet at Deep Training Camp 87, in orbit around Mars. Soon he’ll don the space Marine suit, perhaps even go up against armed Skeptics… or aliens. That’s assuming he doesn't get sucked into the thrusters the first time he takes the thing out for a spin anyway.I _like_ this story. It’s told in first person, which can be awkward when delivered by a lesser writer. In this case it really flows, like you’re in Jack’s head as he lays it all down for you. It’s highly imaginative sci-fi that I can completely believe in as I’m reading along. The dialogue is realistic and the action redlines almost immediately as everything around Jack blows up without warning. I think Adam Moon is about to become one of my new favorite sci-fi writers.