Review: Decent Space Opera
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
"Price of Admiralty" by Richard Tongue launches a new series of space opera novels.  It is a pretty good read, focusing on the troubles of the Triplanetary Alliance and how they impact the first voyage of its battlecruiser "Alamo".  To say the crew is not exactly on the same page would be a massive understatement!  The Alamo is sent to investigate some missing freighters, and gets drawn into a problem on the planet where they disappeared.  There is action on the ground and in space, and the characters including Lt.-Captain Marshall are tested and their mettle and loyalties are revealed.  There is a fair amount of politics in this volume, and propulsion and weapons systems are not as prominently described as in some other series.  Whether the reader will approve of the balance is a matter of personal taste.For the time being, Jack Campbell and Evan Currie are the masters of this genre, with Paul Honsinger and his "Man of War" series moving up nicely.  Mr. Tongue shows promise, and I suspect later additions to his series will be quite worthy.  This one was good enough to entertain me.