Review: A good short story, spoiled
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2012
In the breathless prose of the science fiction magazines of the past mid-century, David Adams creates a slice of a future universe populated with a disfigured hero engaging in his first space dog-fight; a beautiful, but blind, girlfriend back home; and an attractive tomboy colleague with whom he interacts on his fighter-base dreadnaught.  Toss in some enigmatic alien enemies, almost believable future science, and intense battle action, and you have the recipe for a sound space thriller.  However, I had to subtract the extensive use of flashback and the pervasive and sometimes gratuitous use of the f-bomb ("Calm the f*** down," for example) to result in a four-star review.  On the other hand, if another episode in the Lacuna series becomes available, I'll probably fight my way through the profanity for the story.