Review: Spineward Sectors stories rock!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2014
I loved this book. I love the Spineward Sectors universe. It is rich, and familiar since I've read all the adventures of the "Little Admiral". There is no question that these stories are page turners because of a host of likable characters, very well described space battles and no end to crap that goes wrong. Luke Sky Wachter is a gifted story teller and it looks like his son, Caleb, has got the gift as well (author of this one).This story is the adventures of the heavy cruiser "Pride of Prometheus" sent off by the admiral to patrol one or two sectors for a month or so, I remember the assignment given in one of the previous stories in The Admiral's series, but we never heard much about it until this book. Having to fight pirates can be tough, very tough, and always with casualties. New recruits are needed, badly. There's a planet in the vicinity that can help with repairs and recruits. Repairs? No problem. Recruits? Problem. After an interesting maneuver on re-filling the ranks from a society unwilling to do so, the captain seems to be very fortunate in picking up a particularly talented computer nerd/genius that saves their bacon more than once and in the process has some very unusual requests himself. But wait, there's more. You might think the problems are at an end when the pirates are dealt with (are they really though?), but no, a new threat is uncovered. One more dire than the pirates could ever be. The admiral needs to hear about this asap. But can they survive long enough to make it back and tell him?  No Middle Ground is the perfect title for this great story. Enjoy... I can't wait for more.