Review: It's a Polemic, not a Novel.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2013
The author has a vision of the future relationship between government and industry that is fundamentally incoherent. His hero and the affiliated politicians are Good, the current politicians and administration figures are Evil and Stupid. The characters are types, and the level of detail is wildly inconsistent (i.e. we know more about the sleeping arrangements of three people in orbit than any appropriate level of detail of the main character's love interest -- who is mentioned twice in passing before suddenly turning up pregnant at a "pregnancy announcement ceremony" befitting a sitcom). There are technical mistakes -- at one point, geosynchronous satellites are claimed to be 60,000 miles altitude, though it is later more correctly reported as 22,000 miles.It's not bad, but it's not quite ready for prime time. As it was a free download, I don't regret it, and I might consider reading more form the author in the future.