Review: nice read. Different
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
This is the 3rd book in the series. Like the first two, it continues a single story. And that story is not complete. I eagerly await the next episode (for us old people, it's almost like those old movie serials like "King of the Rocket Men"). Britt's writing style remains very personal and detail oriented. Not only is there a good "bit picture", but he zooms in on details that I find fascinating. I know of and like many authors, but few seem to explain space warfare like Britt does. He really drives in the strangeness of doing long range fighting in an Einsteinan envelope. Where your target is 10 light seconds away (186,000,00 miles) and you're seen where it was 10 seconds ago. Hard to really aim even a light speed weapoin at something when you only know where it was 10 seconds ago. And your shot will only arrive at the target in 10 more seconds. Since the target, in the stories, are usually running at or above .1c (18,600 miles / second), they can travel 186,000 miles from the time of the shot, or 372,000 miles from where you last saw it.  And .1c is the low end of the range. Makes me wonder how true space warfare would work. And explains why high speed, "intelligent" self-directed missiles are a necessity.