Review: A good tale, well told
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2014
Mr. Hallman has done a nice job.  Unlike other recent books I've read it appears that his one may actually have been edited and spell/grammar checked.  I don't know if that is actually true but my grammar school teachers weren't crying in the background as I read.The author doesn't fall in love with explaining his fictitious technologies and I do appreciate that.  I do think he makes a mistake with the native language as all the apostrophes make the reader slow down to decipher the words and I think the flow suffers a bit.As I noted another critic say "I read a lot of science fiction so I read a lot of bad science fiction."  In this day and age this one should rate 5 stars compared to some of the crap I've read lately.  Judged against 50 years of sci-fi reading it's a solid 4 star.  My knock mainly involves how a 40 year old survey ship's helmsman is inexplicably aware of the tactics and weapons from what is likely thousands of years before her time.