Review: Military Science Fiction with the emphasis on science.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2012
Let me begin by saying that the yardstick by which I judge much military science is the work of David Weber in the fantastic Honor Harrington series.  That said, "Hegemony" was a disappointment in that I found the science distracting and the military underpinnings weak.  It may well be that this criticism says more about me than the author; nonetheless, there you have it.  It lacks the deft characterization of Weber at his best, and the science, for me, simply drives the plot in an obtrusive fashion that left me cold.  It seems to me that, in the best of the genre, the science is almost invisible in service to the far more interesting interactions of characters in the stress of world and life altering combat.  That simply is not the case here.