Review: The Admiral Wanders Off The Main Track
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 30, 2013
I liked the first books of this series, the resurrected hi-tech admiral engineer uses his enhancements plus people skills to help humanity start to recover civilization after a disastrous war. In "Plague Planet" his enhancements rise to the level of magic, there seems nothing he cannot do, and this includes walking on water because he has some sort of internal anti-gravity device.After the plague starts it's a long catalog of things he did to help the medics fight and eradicate the viruses and nanos that are threatening to wipe out all life.There is just too much of the same thing.And some of the characters names are taken straight from popular culture, the newspaper office is run by Perry White and there are journalists Lois and Clark. There is a boss Hog and a commissioner Gordon.  Choosing such names is merely an oddity in this adventure sci-fi and seems to be just laziness on the part of the author.In an afterword Chris Hectl reports that this episode is just a filler, and may be relevant to further action. I hope so, and look forward to subsequent episodes which hopefully get back to the main theme.