Review: Do you miss Heinlein?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2012
This book came to me highly recommended by someone I trust, and it lived up to the recommendation. Strongly evocative of early science fiction, the story of the two enlisted men brought aboard a spaceship to swab the decks is highly entertaining. Detailed, with a leavening of wit to keep it from becoming slow, the perspective of support crew means there is little bird's eye view of combat, which I found realistic. My only complaint is that a tragic event about half way through the tale, which ought to have made me shed a tear, left me unmoved. The ending is truly amusing and harks back to the days of space pirates in pulp fiction.