Review: Nutall's excellent, well-written, exciting storry about private citizens defending Earth, and the Earthmen as Mercenaries theme
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2014
In "A Learning Experience" Nuttall has written another exciting winner that is among his best, and I look forward to the sequels he has emailed me he intends to write.The theme of Earthmen as primitive, relatively low tech latecomers to a huge, mysterious, and complex Galactic society with many actors, whose only salable commodity is their violent nature and fighting skills--Earthmen as Mercenaries--is a fairly common theme in Science Fiction.Thinking back over the decades, I've read many stories on this general theme, the major standout being Gordon Dickson's great "Dorsai" series.  Then, there are Pournelle's tales of the "Falkenberg Legion," and David Drake's "Hammers Slammers" to name a few other standouts.  Two recent Kindle books I've reviewed here that are also generally on this theme are Jeffrey Burger's excellent "Wings of Steele," and B.V. Larsen's "Steel World."I found "A Learning Experience" to be exciting book.  I liked the characters and the dialog, and I particularly liked the plot, somewhat reminiscent of the plot in "Wings of Steele," in the sense that in each novel private individuals boldly and decisively act to defend the Earth and to explore outward when hidebound, bureaucratic, turf-protecting, myopic Earth governments can't or won't.