Review: a decent  enough read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2013
Much more in the vain of "end of  empire" stories than of straight Sci fi military fiction. There is come thing very compelling about rheum try-believing soldiers, knowing the empire will fall irrespective of their sacrifice,but nonetheless loyal to the ideal and so fighting on to what they know will be the bitter end...fighting for the idea...and fighting against the barbarians who have given in to despair, but most of all fighting for the soldier next to them and their shared sense of honor and duty.I've always bee draw. To tales of the end of empire. Rome....the CoDominium and it's heroes, Falkeberg and Lermentov, though Pournelle is more than a little silly in his personal fascist tendencies (in his personal writing) for me, the actual stories are compelling  and, to his credit, not as self-righteously  myopic as his essays would otherwise suggest....from another era, the Flandrry's, Agent of Terra stories....I love all of them,,,guilty as I feel about the best of the Warhammer violence-porn books, I even enjoy the baroque version of the end of empire as painted in blood and misery by the Black Library....Empire's Corps is NOT as good as any of these from a pure livery quality standpoint. At a minimum, it needs a bunch of copy editing and a more coherently, rigorously edited military technical edit, BUT it has good character pure enough to elicit sympathy and ongoing interest.So, it's no CoDminimum break up but Pournelle really never gave us us enough detail to get us from break up to the a first empire of man. He betrayed us by disappearing Falkenberg and NOT giving us a coherent moment of the birth of the New Emoire....Nuttell is not the visionary or wrier that Pournelle as, but he does seem a little more intellectually honest, and (though I could be wrong) he seems less inclined to abandon us...here's hoping, anyway....Thanks of the fun read, please get so eope to edit your military technical stuff a little bit tight for the upcoming books