Review: I couldn't ignore the technology flubs
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2014
I like it but... not enough to get more than the sample. The technical stuff killed it for me.A rescue crew has to lift a piece of machinery aboard ship and has trouble because it is too heavy. What? Turn off the thrust or (if it has artificial gravity) turn off the gravity. The why is never explained. The Navy ship generates centrifugal force for spin gravity, yet a mining asteroid has artificial gravity. WHY?  Everything that happens is within an hour or few hours travel. That must be quite a drive system OR the coincidence factor is huge. Again, no explanation. The main character complains that he "ran out of movies" after a month in space. What kind of data storage does this space faring society have? I can do better than that today. The body armor is little better than what we have today, and the weapons must be instructed to compensate for the different gravity conditions. Checked yes, but reprogrammed manually? The rifles are too fragile for a bayonet? Really? They might get bumped to hard by a Marine? Damned if I'd trust my life to one.