Review: A pretty succesful attempt to hark back to the Space Operas of E.E. "Doc" Smith.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
**SPOILER ALERT**The SF/Space Opera theme of this trilogy by Doug Hoffman, whose general outline I have seen repeated in whole or in part in many prior works, is that of a human who stumbles across an ancient alien artifact that-if puzzled out and accessed--will lead to such enormous technological advancement and power that humans will almost immediately become a space-faring race, just in time to be able to successfully resist the coming attempts by aliens to destroy Earth and the human species.  Very common too, is the plot element of finding an immensely powerful, gigantic, abandoned alien battleship, and of repairing it to fight again.I thought that Hoffman's trilogy that begins with "Parker's Folly" handled this theme fairly well, and except for the wrong word choice here and there the writing was good, and his characters were fairly well developed.Overall this trilogy interested me enough so that, after getting the first volume delivered free to my Kindle with my Prime membership, I uncharacteristically forked over the money to buy the second and third volumes. I found this trilogy compared well with and was superior to J.D. Clarke's "Lunar Contact Trilogy," that I just reviewed here, which had many similar plot elements.