Review: The best sci-fi novel I've read in years!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2012
"Dawnwind: Last Man Standing" is the best science-fiction novel I have read in years! I picked it up when it was offered for free a few weeks ago, and was very pleasantly surprised at both the story and the quality of writing.In a nutshell, the story follows the last surviving human, John Epcott, after a plague has killed off the human race. He is picked up by a ship of Junians, human-like aliens, who take him back to their homeworld. The book is a series of vignettes showing how Epcott adapts to his new situation and how the Junians adapt to him, and leads into a forthcoming sequel.I'm an old-school sci-fi fan and I enjoy almost every type in the genre, but the standard space opera will always hold a soft spot in my heart and head. George Shirer's book reads a bit like E. E. "Doc" Smith, if he wrote "Stranger in a Strange Land". The style is also reminiscent of the John Grimes tales by A. Bertram Chandler. To top everything off, the book is very well-written.If you are a science fiction fan of any kind, pick up "Dawnwind". You will not be sorry you did!