Review: Space opera, true, but nothing like Banks
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 31, 2012
Reviews compare this book to Iain Banks. However, to me, there is no comparison. Where Banks is intelligent, consistent, and thought through, this book is inconsistent, plodding, and doesn't understand basics of physics or science.The star ship travel is especially bad. It's written exactly as if star ships, small things in a very large 3D/4D space, are instead water ships, on a 2D surface, running on a large lake. The rest of the physics/science in the story has similar problems -- you have to dis-believe too much, and it continually jars your enjoyment of the book.There are also editing problems, what seems like made-up words or words used in ways I wouldn't expect, and other such mistakes. For self-published books, that's an all-too-common flaw, but that doesn't forgive it, only explain it.