Review: Good alien contact swashbuckle
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2013
Our hero is a coward and a bit of a jerk, but at least he seems to know it - indeed, perhaps revel in it a bit.  The rest of the characters are mostly card-baord cut-outs. An over-written hiking lead up, with a number of accidents due to the stupidity of letting the incompetent hero try to do things everyone in the group, including himself, knows he can't do. But the action scenes are good, even if sometimes the alien abilities are sometimes inconsistent, and the hero gets what he deserves in a way that sets up a sequel.  Hope Stephen has learned a bit from this effort and will improve in the next instalment