Review: Great for Kindle SF
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2012
I've read a dozen Kindle military and/or science-fiction novels in the past month, and Mark Kalina's Hegemony is one of the best.  Most are juvenile trash in all senses of the word, but some are good even by professional standards.  Hegemony is one of the latter.  The lead characters are not wooden - they're okay - but the world-building, political manuevering and, in particular, the pacing, are first rate even by professional SF standards.  I absolutely will buy anything else Mr. Kalina publishes.  Hegemony is good military science-fiction by professional standards, and great by Kindle-only standards.  Kalina's pacing is delightful - Hegemony moves right along.The few other non-professional Kindle SF I titles recommend are, in order Ric Locke's Temporary Dut, James Gilaspy's A Larger Universe, and Bruce Bretthauer's Morosini's Children (the 2nd of a series - the first is Firestar, which is okay and probably necessary to understand Morosini's Children).  I look forward to any more by Galina, Locke, Gilaspy and Bretthauer.