Review: For my sins, I must admit to you...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 25, 2013
For my sins, I have been admonished to write a review of yet another wonderful Chris Nuttall addition to the Empire Corps. It is space opera at its finest, but Chris's writing has really shined in this latest episode. I place his work as now approaching the level of the late Isaac the Great, Isaac Azimov, he is one to watch... His professionalism is starting to come through in this work as he fleshes out the characters of school children, who have 'won' a trip to a colony world while the Empire sinks into oblivion. A colony world where those trained in nonsense, meet a world ruled by common sense, it can get ugly sometimes.The parallels of Chris's Universe with our current Earthly predicaments continue to amaze and mystify, as he weaves geopolitics and interstellar economics with wonderful character development and plot design. In his world, we see our world, and we see the ultimate destination for our civilization, madness and barbarity, determined in the results of the politically correct end game of the education system, and the fascist-socialist ideologies of global Unlaw and NewSpeak, as our Federal Establishment becomes more and more like the Grand Senate, it is downright scary.I have read all of Chris's Empire Corps novels, and await each and every one...