Review: Very Good Science Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2013
My brother loaned me this book while telling me it was some of the better sci-fi that he had read recently.  He was right.  It is your basic sci-fi premise, humans are now interstellar - one of the worlds on the frontier falls off the grid - a task force is sent to investigate only to run into a technologically superior alien race and havoc ensues.The author does an excellent job of reigning in the technical advances within the story.  So many authors become enamored with the potential of technology that every problem is able to be solved with some form of advanced AI or organic computer or some completely undetectable death ray... The author here, does a great job of surrounding the story with a believable amount of technology.There is not much to say about the aliens at this point.  The author left them an unintroduced beyond how they reacted in combat.  This worked extremely well for the story.I loved the human characters.  They were well constructed and easy to identify with.