Review: Wonderful contemporary not so space opera
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2014
What happens when the X-Files is exposed and we then play Cowboys and Aliens, then we come to the Moon is a harsh mistress, while moving towards an accidental rise to a galactic empire, all starring John Wayne? In a word, awesome. It is hard to imagine a more perfect scenario of our current Earth, a planet locked and divided civilization, than what happens to the human mass psyche when his paradigm is challenged by alien forces that have always been portrayed as a joke. Do we treat the possibility of aliens being a joke, as a form of society's whistling past the graveyard? Is our current paradigm of technology vs resources, a common theme of higher civilizations throughout the Universe? Is it a necessity, that either the human race abondon's its illusions, unites and grows outside the orbital boundaries of Earth, or dies? If we continue to allow the politically correct feminization of our warrior subculture, does it actually portend a future catastrophe of genocidal proportions? Do we want to be the planet that says "don't mess with us", or "please don't hurt me"? All these questions and more leave one with the uncomfortable thought that maybe Earth would be better served by hiring science fiction writers as leaders, and outlaw professional politicians. After all, the future is their job, and who knows when the future will call and mankind will need to be a quick learner... Within this tale, of a simple alien sampling mission gone awry, all of mankind owes the US Marine Corps a dept of gratitude, and you don't even know it, yet...Chris Nuttall's writing takes on a whole new level of imagination, character development, sociological import and an all too possible scary future with this tale. A space opera of contemporary times, that knits together a tale of galactic scope and titillating sequel potential, worthy of the greats of science fiction.